ABSTRACT
The meeting of Colocotroni on the one side, and his wife and daughter on the other, was full of congratulation and joy. They had not expected to meet again in this world. They knew the summary style of Turkish justice; they knew what was to be expected in the convulsed state of the country; and they had heard of the ferocious and sanguinary character of Achmet. They met however; and, which is more, they met in freedom. They were permitted / to carry with them out of the dominions which were now subjected to the Turk, whatever was capable of being transported. But, which was still more gratifying to them, they met with acquittal, with honour and virtue. This sudden change of fortune which had taken place, was wholly owing to the heroic qualities of both father and daughter. Irene, a young girl of nineteen years of age, had had the courage to present herself, urged by the insuppressible passion to save her father’s life, alone, before the Turkish conqueror, surrounded with his officers; and the result had been such as her courage and devotion merited. Colocotroni had finished what his daughter began. He stood before the barbarian in all the 67magnanimity of a son of Leonidas. a He had told his story with the frankness and simplicity, with the subdued manner and the unconquerable soul, which adorned it with a thousand nameless / graces, and which had taken captive one of the fiercest and the most formidable spirits, that the school of Mahomet ever bred.
