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Then it said, 'Master, that is the house we are going to, and you are not a poor man any longer: even your name is new. 'What IS my name, eh, my father? asked the man. 'Sultan Darai, said the gazelle. Very soon some soldiers came to meet them, while others ran off to tell the sultan of their approach.
One sees, for instance, a tawdrily dressed mechanical doll from Paris standing next to a case containing the "Darai Nor," or "Sea of Light," a magnificent diamond obtained in India, and said to be the largest yet discovered, though somewhat inferior in quality to the "Koh-i-noor."
The gazelle has died from bitterness of soul, and you ordered your slaves to throw it into the well. Ah! leave us alone that we may weep. But Sultan Darai would not heed their words, and the dead gazelle was thrown into the well.
And they journeyed on for many days, and they all, nobles and slaves, loved the gazelle with a great love more than they loved the Sultan Darai. At last one day signs of houses appeared, far, far off. And those who saw cried out, 'Gazelle! And it answered, 'Ah, my mistresses, that is the house of Sultan Darai.
When the news spread abroad, there was much weeping among the people, and Sultan Darai arose in wrath, and cried, 'You weep for that gazelle as if you wept for me! And, after all, what is it but a gazelle, that I bought for an eighth? But his wife answered, 'Master, we looked upon that gazelle as we looked upon you.
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