The thousand and one nights (Volume 1): commonly called, in England, the Arabian nights' entertainments . her heard this,he entered the bride-chamber, and found the turban of Hasan Bedr-cd-Deen, the son of his brother ; and taking it up, he turned it over,and said, This is such a turban as is worn by AVezeers, except thatit is of the Alosilee53 kind. He then observed an amulet sewed in hisred cloth cap ; and he unsiwed it; and he took the drawers, andfound the purse containing the thousand pieces of gold, and, openingthis, he discovered in it a paper, which, when he had read it, he saw tobe a
The thousand and one nights (Volume 1): commonly called, in England, the Arabian nights' entertainments . her heard this,he entered the bride-chamber, and found the turban of Hasan Bedr-cd-Deen, the son of his brother ; and taking it up, he turned it over,and said, This is such a turban as is worn by AVezeers, except thatit is of the Alosilee53 kind. He then observed an amulet sewed in hisred cloth cap ; and he unsiwed it; and he took the drawers, andfound the purse containing the thousand pieces of gold, and, openingthis, he discovered in it a paper, which, when he had read it, he saw tobe a copy of the Jews contract, with the name of Hasan Bedr-ed-Deenthe son of Noor-ed-Deen of Cairo; and he found also the thousandpieces of gold. But when he read the paper he cried aloud and felldown in a swoon; and as soon as he recovered, and understood thecase, he was astonished, and exclaimed, There is no deity but God,who is able to do whatsoever He willeth ! Then said he, 0 mydaughter, knowest thou who hath become thy husband? Sheanswered, No.—He is the son of my brother, said he, and the son of. thine uncle; and these thousand pieces of gold are thy be the perfection of God ! Would that I knew how thisevent hath happened!—Then he opened the amulet that was sewedup, and found in it a paper written by the hand of his brother Noor-ed-Deen of Cairo, the father of Hasan Bedr-ed-Deen: and when hebeheld the hand-writing of his brother he repeated this couplet:— I behold their footsteps, and melt with desire, and pour forth my tears upon the places they have trodden,Begging of Him who hath afflicted me by their separation, that He will bless me some day by a reunion. So saying, he read the paper, and found in it the date of his marriageto the daughter of the Wezeer of El-Basrah, and that of his firstintroduction to her, and a record of his age at the time of his death,and the date of the birth of his son Hasan Bedr-ed-Deen ; and hewondered, and shook with delig
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