ABSTRACT
This chapter reproduces the text from Chapter IV of Ada Reis, volume 1. Ada Reis presented many jewels of great value and rich merchandises to the Pasha. He then, with his permission, purchased a country-house, provided with baths, gardens, and every possible earthly delight. Often the remembrance of past deeds awakened in his soul, and he thought of the days he had passed in the desert, and the dreadful night when Muley Hadgi and Yusuph Seid had perished by his hand; then memory pictured to him the promises of love, his jealous rage, and the form of his murdered mistress. Ada Reis was superstitious, because he had long ceased to be religious. When the marabut sounded to announce the prayer at sunset, he never prostrated himself upon the ground; he never turned his face to the east, nor breathed to his prophet, or his Creator, one single thanksgiving.
