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Massacres Of The South (1551-1815) VI

CHAPTER III
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Terrified by the noise; and at the sight of her infuriated husband, Emineh fell into violent convulsions, and shortly expired.

Thus perished the daughter of Capelan Pacha, wife of Ali Tepeleni, and mother of Mouktar and Veli, who, doomed to live surrounded by evil, yet remained virtuous and good.
Her death caused universal mourning throughout Albania, and produced a not less deep impression on the mind of her murderer.

Emineh's spectre pursued him in his pleasures, in the council chamber, in the hours of night.

He saw her, he heard her, and would awake, exclaiming, "my wife! my wife!--It is my wife!--Her eyes are angry; she threatens me!--Save me! Mercy!" For more than ten years Ali never dared to sleep alone..


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