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finitely contagious, and separates from communi-cation with any healthy creature; that renders onean object of ineffable disgust and terror to everyhuman being for a long time, and is always gettingworse, and, after prodigious sufferings, moral andphysical, closes by a fearful agony—the leprosy—which marks you as unworthy of every earthlysociety from the very first, and never admits of theleast glimpse of comfort in this world. The mostunfeeling of fathers could never have pronouncedsuch an atrocious sentence on his son, much lessa mother. If for nothing else, for this William ofTyre merits the severest rebuke; nor that he wasthat tutor, could the writer have willingly believed;but he must, since it is that same Tyre himselfrelates it . 1 No wonder then if the hapless youthlost all courage, and teased several with vainentreaties.

Noureddin’s death brought Saladin from Egypt,and was the Latin kingdom’s knell. That Saladinbecame a beneficent sovereign to Egypt, is still re-membered by the Nilometer, or Joseph’s Well, socalled from his name Joseph. That he had theCairo Caliph murdered in or out of the bath 2 —per-

1 Michaud : Bibl4 Crois., i. 159. 2 Yertot: ii. 209.