bright attire, ready for a rapid toilet. Then,when the Dervish appeared, she sat weeping as usual, and itwas not until, in his protestations of love, he said words thatwere suitable to her purpose that she paused and half driedher tears as if it needed little more to make her weigh hispetition with… … *•• it away crying, No, it cannot be ! Never can I forgetAladdin ! He pleaded with her, and his passion made himeloquent. He showed her the uselessness of longing for adead man when a living one was by her side. He told hertoo—and with the Lamp in his bosom she could not doubtthe truth of it—that…
Fairy tales · Folklore -- Arabian Peninsula
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