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"The Turk allowed this intimacy to take place and encouraged the

hopes of the youthful lovers, while in his heart he had formed

far other plans. He loathed the idea that his daughter should be

united to a Christian, but he feared the resentment of Felix if

he should appear lukewarm, for he knew that he was still in the

power of his deliverer if he should choose to betray him to the

Italian state which they inhabited. He revolved a thousand plans

by which he should be enabled to prolong the deceit until it

might be no longer necessary, and secretly to take his daughter

with him when he departed. His plans were facilitated by the news

which arrived from Paris.