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'My God! how you frightened me, Amine. I thought by their firing that you had shown yourself at the window.'

'Indeed I did not; but I thought that when you fired through the door they might return your fire, and you be hurt; so I went to the side of the casement and pushed out on a stick some of my father's clothes, and they who were watching for you fired immediately.'

'Indeed, Amine! who could have expected such courage and such coolness in one so young and beautiful?' exclaimed Philip, with surprise.

'Are none but ill-favoured people brave, then?' replied Amine, smiling.