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In the meantime the Emperor Khoonoo-shah, followed by all the lords of his court who were then present, went on foot to the door of the great mosque; and after he had taken the queen out of the strict confinement she had languished under for so many years, embracing her in the miserable condition to which she was then reduced, he said to her, with tears in his eyes: "I come to entreat your pardon for the injustice I have done you, and to make you the reparation I ought.
The chief cadi of Bagdad being called, with witnesses, he wrote the contracts of marriage; and the caliph, in promoting by his patronage the happiness of many persons who had suffered such incredible calamities, drew a thousand blessings upon himself. There was an emperor of Persia, named Khoonoo-shah.
But the princess, as had been the two princes her brothers, preserved from death by the compassion and charity of the intendant of the gardens. To this inhumanity the two sisters added a lie and deceit, as before. They procured a piece of wood, of which they said the queen had been delivered. Khoonoo-shah could no longer contain himself at this third disappointment.
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