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The PRINCE of

and temples will be demolished to make stables of granate, and cottages of porphyry.

CHAP. XXXVIII.
The adventures of Pekuah continued.

"WE wandered about in this manner for some weeks, whether, as our chief pretended, for my gratification, or, as I rather suspected, for some convenience of his own, I endeavoured to appear contented where sullenness and resentment would have been of no use, and that endeavour conduced much to the calmness of my mind; but my heart was always with Nekayah,

and