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persuasions; yet, if your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill."
CHAP. XIII.
Rasselas discovers the means of escape.
THE prince now dismissed his favourite to rest, but the narrative of wonders and novelties filled his mind with perturbation. He revolved all that he had heard, and prepared innumerable questions for the morning.
Much of his uneasiness was now removed. He had a friend to whom he
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