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Updated: June 22, 2025
"We cannot consent to the death of a young man that hath done no evil," said they to Balavan: "keep him in close confinement if you are afraid of his interest, but spare his life." He was forced to comply with their demand, and shut up his nephew in a cave. Chamsada, having heard this afflicting news, was unable to restrain her excessive grief.
However, as the King continued to relate the adventure of the well, and as she learned that the slave and the young man had been drawn up from it, she recovered her tranquillity, and at the end of her husband's relation her feelings were entirely calm. "Be comforted, my dear Chamsada," said he to her.
All is now changed into a frightful desert, where I see nothing but hideous monsters and dreadful precipices. Chamsada is faithless. The false Chamsada whom I adored, and whom I love still, has betrayed me. She has given her heart to a vile slave. I am fallen from the height of an imaginary happiness into a hell where every evil torments me.
Unable any longer to withstand the force of this intercession, the Sultan was forced to reveal all his distress. "I loved Chamsada with my whole heart," said the Sultan. "Her graces, her wisdom, her virtues, all the charms, in a word, with which she was adorned, appeared to me a delicious garden, where my thoughts wandered with delight.
The monarch boasted continually of his virtues, and praised this new favourite to the grandees of his Court, endeavouring to render him as dear to them as he was to himself. Amidst these flattering praises, which resounded in the ears of Chamsada, what conflicts of tenderness did not this feeling mother experience in the loss of her own son!
The unfortunate Prince, availing himself of their beneficence and counsel, took his leave. They did not separate from him without giving proofs of their attachment; and Shaseliman began his journey, recommending himself to God, and Mahomet His great Prophet. After a long and fatiguing journey, he at length arrived in Egypt, where Chamsada, his mother, reigned.
While this recital engaged the attention of Bensirak, Chamsada, his spouse, although less troubled than on the preceding days, was not altogether in a tranquil state. The events had become too important for her. She endeavoured to find out with what design the Sultan, after having questioned her, had departed so abruptly.
Selimansha immediately ordered the preparations necessary for the celebration of the nuptials. Public rejoicings followed it, and manifested the general satisfaction. They lasted sixty days. At the end of this term Selimansha, desirous of repose, abdicated the crown in favour of the son to whose fortunes he had just united the lovely Chamsada.
"In vain would you run over the whole world," said he to him, "in order to find Shaseliman, since it is he who now speaks to you." At these words, the slave fell at the feet of his Sovereign, and covered his hands with tears and kisses. "Ah," exclaimed he, "how overjoyed will Chamsada be! What happy news shall I bring to her!
In the meantime Chamsada, far from partaking of the public felicity and of the happiness of her husband, pined in secret. Separated from her son, she was occupied about him alone, to whom her heart was truly attached.
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