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And the first question asked to a rare foreign reporter is, "Was Alla really beaten up by the police?"

Ledit Patriarche y alla, & avec vn truchement fit envers lui ce qui estoit de l'office d'un bon Pasteur.

Yet I should like much to satisfy myself of the fact of our being suspected,—ay, and by Alla!

I felt that Alla would sooner or later urge me on to be the humble means of a retributive justice overtaking him.

He began likewise to sing the little air, Chi rende alla meschina; and was this, thought I, merely to ridicule me?

We then became intimate, and the upshot of the whole was, that we agreed to travel together; and, by Alla!