The thousand and one nights (Volume 1): commonly called, in England, the Arabian nights' entertainments . ersation with me, said, O our sister, what dost thou purpose to dowith this handsome youth ? I answered, I desire to take him as myhusband :—and, turning to him, and approaching him, I said, 0 mymaster, I wish to make a proposal to thee, and do not thou oppose replied, I hear and obey :—and I then looked towards my sisters,and said to them, This young man is all that I desire, and all thewealth that is here is yours.—Excellent, they replied, is thy deter-mination :—yet still they des
The thousand and one nights (Volume 1): commonly called, in England, the Arabian nights' entertainments . ersation with me, said, O our sister, what dost thou purpose to dowith this handsome youth ? I answered, I desire to take him as myhusband :—and, turning to him, and approaching him, I said, 0 mymaster, I wish to make a proposal to thee, and do not thou oppose replied, I hear and obey :—and I then looked towards my sisters,and said to them, This young man is all that I desire, and all thewealth that is here is yours.—Excellent, they replied, is thy deter-mination :—yet still they designed evil against me.—We continuedour voyage with a favourable wind, and, quitting the sea of peril,entered the sea of security, across which we proceeded for some days,until we drew near to the city of El-Basrah, the buildings of whichloomed before us at the approach of evening; but as soon as we hadfallen asleep, my sisters took us up in our bed, both myself and theyoung man, and threw us into the sea. The youth, being unable toswim, was drowned: God recorded him among the company of the.
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