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CHAP. XIV.
Rasselas and Imlac receive an unexpected visit.
THEY had now wrought their way to the middle, and solaced their labour with the approach of liberty, when the prince, coming down to refresh himself with air, found his sister Nekayah standing before the mouth of the cavity. He started and stood confused, afraid to tell his design, and yet hopeless to conceal it. A few moments determined him to repose on her fidelity, and secure her secrecy by a declaration without reserve.
"Do not imagine, said the princess, that I came hither as a spy: I had often observed from my window, that you and
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