ABSTRACT
IwasnosoonersettledinClimsan,butoneofthatsexsoughtafairoccasionto discoverheraffectiontome.IwasverywaryhowIentertainedanysuchproposition;forIwasafraidofmymaster'scunning,oranyotherplotwhichmightbeset onfoottodrivemetoanecessityofturningMuhammadan;forIwasoften importunedbymymaster,andinvitedwiththepromiseofmyliberty,incase82I wouldrenounceChristianity;butIcouldneverconsenttosomuchweakness,notto actagainstsomuchlightGodhaddiscoveredtomeinhistruth.Iwastherefore afraidthatalladdressesthatweremadetomeofthatnaturewerebutdesignsto ensnareme,andobligemetoapostacy.Ididnotacceptofsofairopportunitesas
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were offered to me, which created me a great deal of trouble; for those persons became my deadly enemies, they sought all occasions to do me mischief. Angered love turns into deadly hatred. The first whose caresses I was to suffer was the wife of a wealthy citizen of Clirnsan; her husband was old and decrepit, and she very young, and therefore more pardonable if she sought satisfaction abroad, when she could not find it at horne. I was often sent to her house for things that my master wanted; there she began to be acquainted with me.
