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Now he was a skilful sorcerer crafty and wicked; so he watched his time and played Ali Shar the trick aforesaid; then, taking the key, he went to his brother and told him what had passed, whereupon Reshideddin mounted his mule and repaired with his servants to Ali Shar's house, taking with him a purse of a thousand dinars, wherewith to bribe the master of police, should he meet him.
'By Allah, quoth the broker, 'thou art excusable, and thy value is ten thousand dinars! So he told her owner that she would not accept of Reshideddin, and he said, 'Ask her of another. Thereupon another man came forward and said, 'I will take her at the same price. She looked at him and seeing that his beard was dyed, said, 'What is this lewd and shameful fashion and blackening of the face of hoariness? And she made a great show of amazement and repeated the following verses: A sight, and what a sight, did such a one present To me!
Who will open the biddings for this damsel, the mistress of moons, the splendid pearl, Zumurrud the Curtain-maker, the aim of the seeker and the delight of the desirous? Open the biddings, and on the opener be nor blame nor reproach. So one merchant said, 'I bid five hundred dinars for her. 'And ten, said another. 'Six hundred, cried an old man named Reshideddin, blue-eyed and foul of face.
She looked at him and knowing him for the accursed Christian, who called himself Reshideddin, said in herself, 'How blessed is this device of the food, into whose toils this infidel hath fallen! Now the manner of his coming was extraordinary, and it was on this wise.
She ceased not to go from quarter to quarter and street to street and house to house, till God the Most High led her to the house of the accursed Reshideddin the Nazarene. She heard groans within and knocked at the door, whereupon a slave-girl came down and opening the door to her, saluted her.
Thy name is Reshideddin the Nazarene; thou art outwardly a Muslim, but a Christian at heart, and thine occupation is to lay snares for the slave-girls of the Muslims and take them.
What is thy name and occupation, and what brings thee hither? 'O King of the age, answered he, 'my name is Rustem and I have no occupation, for I am a poor dervish. Then said she to her attendants, 'Bring me a table of sand and pen of brass. So they brought her what she sought, as usual; and she took the pen and drawing a geomantic figure, considered it awhile, then raising her head to Reshideddin, said, 'O dog, how darest thou lie to kings?
'And ten, quoth another. 'I bid a thousand, rejoined Reshideddin; whereupon the other merchants were silent and the broker took counsel with the girl's owner, who said, 'I have sworn not to sell her save to whom she shall choose; consult her. So the broker went up to Zumurrud and said to her, 'O mistress of moons, yonder merchant hath a mind to buy thee. She looked as Reshideddin and finding him as we have said, replied, 'I will not be sold to a grey- beard, whom decrepitude hath brought to evil plight. 'Bravo, quoth I, 'for one who saith: I asked her for a kiss one day, but she my hoary head Saw, though of wealth and worldly good I had great plentihead; So, with a proud and flouting air, her back she turned on me And, "No, by Him who fashioned men from nothingness!" she said.
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