Chapter

1 1 |   gangrene of which she is vainly trying to cure herself to-day,
2 1 |    fell back upon tyranny. Vainly did reason expostulate that
3 3 | both extortion and rapine, vainly filled the air with their
4 5 |  contracted alarmingly. He vainly endeavoured to smile and
5 6 | his son Veli Pacha: Having vainly attempted to gratify it
6 7 |  were dreams of blood, and vainly he sought refuge in chambers
7 7 |    the nobles of the town, vainly entreating them to intercede
8 11|     and artifice struggled vainly against a decided line of
9 11|   reward of his crimes. He vainly embraced the knees of his