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"
The
days
now
passed
as
peaceably
as
before
,
with
the
sole
alteration
that
joy
had
taken
place
of
sadness
in
the
countenances
of
my
friends
.
Safie
was
always
gay
and
happy
;
she
and
I
improved
rapidly
in
the
knowledge
of
language
,
so
that
in
two
months
I
began
to
comprehend
most
of
the
words
uttered
by
my
protectors
.
"
In
the
meanwhile
also
the
black
ground
was
covered
with
herbage
,
and
the
green
banks
interspersed
with
innumerable
flowers
,
sweet
to
the
scent
and
the
eyes
,
stars
of
pale
radiance
among
the
moonlight
woods
;
the
sun
became
warmer
,
the
nights
clear
and
balmy
;
and
my
nocturnal
rambles
were
an
extreme
pleasure
to
me
,
although
they
were
considerably
shortened
by
the
late
setting
and
early
rising
of
the
sun
,
for
I
never
ventured
abroad
during
daylight
,
fearful
of
meeting
with
the
same
treatment
I
had
formerly
endured
in
the
first
village
which
I
entered
.
"
My
days
were
spent
in
close
attention
,
that
I
might
more
speedily
master
the
language
;
and
I
may
boast
that
I
improved
more
rapidly
than
the
Arabian
,
who
understood
very
little
and
conversed
in
broken
accents
,
whilst
I
comprehended
and
could
imitate
almost
every
word
that
was
spoken
.
"
While
I
improved
in
speech
,
I
also
learned
the
science
of
letters
as
it
was
taught
to
the
stranger
,
and
this
opened
before
me
a
wide
field
for
wonder
and
delight
.
"
The
book
from
which
Felix
instructed
Safie
was
Volney
's
Ruins
of
Empires
.
I
should
not
have
understood
the
purport
of
this
book
had
not
Felix
,
in
reading
it
,
given
very
minute
explanations
.
He
had
chosen
this
work
,
he
said
,
because
the
declamatory
style
was
framed
in
imitation
of
the
Eastern
authors
.
Through
this
work
I
obtained
a
cursory
knowledge
of
history
and
a
view
of
the
several
empires
at
present
existing
in
the
world
;
it
gave
me
an
insight
into
the
manners
,
governments
,
and
religions
of
the
different
nations
of
the
earth
.
I
heard
of
the
slothful
Asiatics
,
of
the
stupendous
genius
and
mental
activity
of
the
Grecians
,
of
the
wars
and
wonderful
virtue
of
the
early
Romans
--
of
their
subsequent
degenerating
--
of
the
decline
of
that
mighty
empire
,
of
chivalry
,
Christianity
,
and
kings
.
I
heard
of
the
discovery
of
the
American
hemisphere
and
wept
with
Safie
over
the
hapless
fate
of
its
original
inhabitants
.
"
These
wonderful
narrations
inspired
me
with
strange
feelings
.
Was
man
,
indeed
,
at
once
so
powerful
,
so
virtuous
and
magnificent
,
yet
so
vicious
and
base
?
He
appeared
at
one
time
a
mere
scion
of
the
evil
principle
and
at
another
as
all
that
can
be
conceived
of
noble
and
godlike
.
To
be
a
great
and
virtuous
man
appeared
the
highest
honour
that
can
befall
a
sensitive
being
;
to
be
base
and
vicious
,
as
many
on
record
have
been
,
appeared
the
lowest
degradation
,
a
condition
more
abject
than
that
of
the
blind
mole
or
harmless
worm
.
For
a
long
time
I
could
not
conceive
how
one
man
could
go
forth
to
murder
his
fellow
,
or
even
why
there
were
laws
and
governments
;
but
when
I
heard
details
of
vice
and
bloodshed
,
my
wonder
ceased
and
I
turned
away
with
disgust
and
loathing
.
"
Every
conversation
of
the
cottagers
now
opened
new
wonders
to
me
.
While
I
listened
to
the
instructions
which
Felix
bestowed
upon
the
Arabian
,
the
strange
system
of
human
society
was
explained
to
me
.
I
heard
of
the
division
of
property
,
of
immense
wealth
and
squalid
poverty
,
of
rank
,
descent
,
and
noble
blood
.
"
The
words
induced
me
to
turn
towards
myself
.
I
learned
that
the
possessions
most
esteemed
by
your
fellow
creatures
were
high
and
unsullied
descent
united
with
riches
.
A
man
might
be
respected
with
only
one
of
these
advantages
,
but
without
either
he
was
considered
,
except
in
very
rare
instances
,
as
a
vagabond
and
a
slave
,
doomed
to
waste
his
powers
for
the
profits
of
the
chosen
few
!
And
what
was
I
?
Of
my
creation
and
creator
I
was
absolutely
ignorant
,
but
I
knew
that
I
possessed
no
money
,
no
friends
,
no
kind
of
property
.
I
was
,
besides
,
endued
with
a
figure
hideously
deformed
and
loathsome
;
I
was
not
even
of
the
same
nature
as
man
.
I
was
more
agile
than
they
and
could
subsist
upon
coarser
diet
;
I
bore
the
extremes
of
heat
and
cold
with
less
injury
to
my
frame
;
my
stature
far
exceeded
theirs
.
When
I
looked
around
I
saw
and
heard
of
none
like
me
.
Was
I
,
then
,
a
monster
,
a
blot
upon
the
earth
,
from
which
all
men
fled
and
whom
all
men
disowned
?
