The thousand and one nights (Volume 1): commonly called, in England, the Arabian nights' entertainments . ee the price of the stuffs : bring now the money-changer, andreceive So the money-changer came, and the eunuch gave himthe money, and I took it, and sat conversing with her until the marketwas replenished, and the merchants opened their shops, when she saidto me, Procure for me such and such things. Accordingly, I procuredfor her what she desired of the merchants, and she took the goods anddeparted without saying anything to me respecting the price. Whenshe had gone, therefore, I rep
The thousand and one nights (Volume 1): commonly called, in England, the Arabian nights' entertainments . ee the price of the stuffs : bring now the money-changer, andreceive So the money-changer came, and the eunuch gave himthe money, and I took it, and sat conversing with her until the marketwas replenished, and the merchants opened their shops, when she saidto me, Procure for me such and such things. Accordingly, I procuredfor her what she desired of the merchants, and she took the goods anddeparted without saying anything to me respecting the price. Whenshe had gone, therefore, I repented of what I had done; for I hadprocured for her what she demanded for the price of a thousand piecesof gold; and as soon as she had disappeared from my sight, I saidwithin myself, What kind of love is this ? She hath brought me fivethousand pieces of silver, and taken goods for a thousand pieces ofgold!—I feared that the result would be my bankruptcy, and the lossof the property of others, and said, The merchants know none but me,and this woman is no other than a cheat, who hath imposed upon me. by her beauty and loveliness : seeing me to be young, she hath laughedat me, and I asked her not where was her residence. I remained in a state of perplexity, and her absence was prolongedmore than a month. Meanwhile the merchants demanded of me theirmoney, and so pressed me that I offered my possessions for sale, andwas on the brink of ruin; but as I was sitting absorbed in reflection,suddenly she alighted at the gate of the market-street, and came in tome. As soon as I beheld her, my solicitude ceased, and I forgot thetrouble which I had suffered. She approached, and addressed mewith her agreeable conversation, and said, Produce the scales, andweigh thy money :—and she gave me the price of the goods which shehad taken, with a surplus ; after which, she amused herself by talkingwith me, and I almost died with joy and happiness. She then saidto me, Hast thou a wife ? I answered,
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