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"It is strange," said Mr. Middleton, "that after Clarissa had shown / her devotion to the extent of saving his life, Captain Leadbury could / have had, even for a moment, any misgivings that she loved him."
"One cannot always be sure," said the emir. "A lover, being in a / highly nervous state because of his emotion, is always more or less / unstrung and unable to form a sound judgment or behave rationally. It / is because of this, that there are so many lovers' quarrels. But one / need not be at sea as regards the question of the affection of the / object of his tender passion. It is only necessary for you to wear a / philter upon the forehead and you can obtain the love of any woman," / and giving Mesrour some directions, the Nubian brought to his master a / minute bag of silk an inch square and of wafer thinness, which, both / from its appearance and the rare odor of musk which it exhaled, / resembled a sachet bag.