"Is this all the gratitude that you deign for an attachment of which
the annals of the world furnish no parallel? An attachment which
has caused me to forego power and dominion, might, homage,
conquest and adulation: all that I might gain one highly valued
and sanctified spirit to my great and true, principles of
reformation among mankind. Wherein have I offended? What
have I done for evil, or what have I not done for your good; that
you would thus shun my presence?"
"Great and magnificent prince," said I humbly; "let me request of
you to abandon a poor worthless wight to his own wayward
fortune, and return to the dominion of your people. I am
unworthy of the sacrifices you have made for my sake; and, after
all your efforts, I do not feel that you have rendered either more
virtuous or more happy. For the sake of that which is estimable
in human nature, depart from me to your own home, before you
render me a being either altogether above or below the rest of my
fellow creatures. Let me plod on towards Heaven and happiness
in my own way, like those that have gone before me, and I
promise to stick fast by the great principles which you have so
strenuously inculcated, on condition that you depart and leave me
for ever.
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