The Pilgrim of the Cross : Or, the Chronicles of Christabelle De Mowbray : An Ancient Legend 2
The book The Pilgrim of the Cross : Or, the Chronicles of Christabelle De Mowbray : An Ancient Legend 2 was written by author Helme, Elizabeth, D. 1816 Here you can read free online of The Pilgrim of the Cross : Or, the Chronicles of Christabelle De Mowbray : An Ancient Legend 2 book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Pilgrim of the Cross : Or, the Chronicles of Christabelle De Mowbray : An Ancient Legend 2 a good or bad book?
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H .AMET, the vizier, the friend of the soldan, and the scourge of the Christians, was father of two sons, my brother Othman and myself; though previous to this event he had a daughter, by a Christian captive, who afterwards escaped, with her child and an English prisoner, to Europe, a circum- stance that redoubled his aversion to that sect and people. Othman was my father's favourite, while my mother, who possessed ^ a 15S THE PILGRIM OF a kind heart, shuddered to see the dif- ference he made b...etween his children. As we grew up and my mother's age increased, my father's passions demanded fresh objects, so that her charms fading on his sickly fancy, were replaced by youth- ful beauties of all countries ; but as the rank she held could not be taken from her, as being the mother of his sons, she was sent to the haram now in ruins, where you so lately found me, and from whence the Christian favourite, who was called Mary, had not at that period long escaped. My brother was about thirteen years old, I was eleven, and both resided with my father al- ternately at Aeon, Jerusalem, or Cairo.
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