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The Arabian nights' entertainments (1916)

Rhead, Louis, 1857-1926, ill · New York : Harper & Brothers · leaf 334

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casual hearing of this order created in Aladdin a curiosityto see the princess unveiled; but this he could only accomplishby going to some house whose inmates he knew, and by lookingthrough the lattices. This plan, however, by no means satisfiedhim, because the princess usually wore a veil as she… … WHEN SHE HAD COME WITHIN THREE OR FOUR PACES OF THE DOOR OF THE BATH SHE LIFTED UP THE VEIL ARABIAN NIGHTS bath, which was so constructed that he could not fail to see theface of every one who passed through it. Aladdin had not waited long in his place of concealmentbefore the princess made her…

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