The thousand and one nights (Volume 1): commonly called, in England, the Arabian nights' entertainments . ey therefore con-sulted together to kill me, and take my wealth ; saying, Let us killour brother, and all the property shall be ours :—and the devil madethese actions to seem fair in their eyes; so they came to me whileI was sleeping by the side of my wife, and took both of us up, andthrew us into the sea. But as soon as my wife awoke, she shookherself, and became transformed into a She immediatelybore me away, and placed me upon an island, and, for a while, dis-appeared. In t
The thousand and one nights (Volume 1): commonly called, in England, the Arabian nights' entertainments . ey therefore con-sulted together to kill me, and take my wealth ; saying, Let us killour brother, and all the property shall be ours :—and the devil madethese actions to seem fair in their eyes; so they came to me whileI was sleeping by the side of my wife, and took both of us up, andthrew us into the sea. But as soon as my wife awoke, she shookherself, and became transformed into a She immediatelybore me away, and placed me upon an island, and, for a while, dis-appeared. In the morning, however, she returned, and said to me,I am thy wife, who carried thee, and rescued thee from death, bypermission of God, whose name be exalted. Know that I am aJinneeyeh: I saw thee, and my heart loved thee for the sake of God;for I am a believer in God and his Apostle, God bless and save him !26I came to thee in the condition in which thou sawest me, and thoudidst marry me; and see, I have rescued thee from drowning. ButI am incensed against thy brothers, and I must kill them.—When I. heard her talc, I was astonished, and thanked her for what she haddone ;—But, said I, as to the destruction of my brothers, it is not whatI desire. I then related to her all that had happened between myselfand them from first to last; and when she had heard it, she said, Iwill, this next night, fly to them, and sink their ship, and destroy I said, I conjure, thee by Allah that thou do it not; for theauthor of the proverb saith, 0 thou benefactor of him who hath doneevil, the action that he hath done is sufficient for him r7—besides,they are at all events my brothers. She still, however, said, Theymust be killed;—audi continued to propitiate her towards them : andat last she lifted me up, and soared through the air, and placed me onthe roof of my Having opened the doors, I dug up what I had hidden in theearth; and after I had saluted my neighbours, and bough
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