🌲 Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Ingratitude Punished., sentence 66

Thus was Abdallah punished by poverty, and almost by death, for his unreasonable ambition, which perhaps might have been pardonable, if it had not been accompanied by an ingratitude as wicked as it was audacious, since he had not so much as the resource of being able to conceal his perfidies from the too piercing eyes of his benefactor.

Who acts: poverty, unreasonable ambition, ingratitude, ambition, Abdallah, resource · What happens: punish, be, not accompany, have, conceal, pierce · To what, where: Abdallah, ambition, much, perfidies, piercing eyes

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