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For men are bound to pardon those that are beneath their hand, If they themselves with those that be above them grace would find. Quoth the Afrit, "I will neither kill thee nor let thee go free, but I will assuredly enchant thee." Then he tore me from the ground and flew up with me into the air, till I saw the earth as it were a platter midmost the water.
Would God I had not urged my daughter to attempt the delivery of this ape, whereby I have imposed on her this fearful labour with yonder accursed Afrit, against whom all the other Afrits in the world could not prevail! And would we had never seen this ape, may God's blessing not be on him nor on the hour of his coming!
When the Afrit saw him, he said, 'There is no god but God, and Solomon is His prophet! Solomon is dead these eighteen hundred years, and we are now at the end of time. But what is thy history and how comest thou in this vessel? When the Marid heard this, he said, 'There is no god but God!
But how could his family find it in their hearts to leave him in this desert place, where if one of our Marids came upon him at this hour, he would kill him? Then she bent over him and kissing him between the eyes, folded back the coverlet over his face; after which she spread her wings and soaring into the air, flew upward till she drew near the lowest heaven, when she heard the noise of wings beating the air and making for the sound, found that it came from an Afrit called Dehnesh.
Never quiet while awake, and scarcely at rest during slumber, he resembled Bedreddin Hassan in frequently going to sleep in one town, to awake in another far distant, but without the benighted Oriental's surprise at the transfer, the afrit who performed this prodigy being a steam-engine, and the magician it obeyed the human mind. In these rapid peregrinations it would not have been easy for Mr.
Then came forward the first old man, he of the gazelle, and kissed the Afrit's hand and said to him, 'O genie and crown of the kings of the Jinn, if I relate to thee my history with this gazelle and it seem to thee wonderful, wilt thou grant me a third of this merchant's blood? 'Yes, O old man, answered the genie, 'if thou tell me thy story and I find it wonderful, I will remit to thee a third of his blood. Then said the old man, 'Know, O Afrit, that
Thou and I are like King Younan's Vizier and the physician Douban. 'Who are they, asked the Afrit, 'and what is their story? Then said the fisherman, 'Know, O Afrit, that Story of the Physician Douban.
When I heard this, my colour changed and I was sick for terror but before I could think, the floor clove asunder and up came the stranger, and lo, it was the Afrit!
Wilt thou not now rise and depart?" "In the name of God," replied Bedreddin, and rising, went out of the door, where the Afrit met him and said to him, "Stay where thou art, and when the hunchback goes out to the draught-house, enter thou the bride chamber and do not hesitate, but sit down in the alcove, and when the bride comes, say to her, ''Tis I who am thy husband, for the King only played this trick on thee, to conjure the evil eye from us; and he whom thou sawest is one of our grooms. Then go up to her and uncover her face and fear nothing, for jealousy hath taken us of this affair and none is worthy to enjoy her youth but thyself. As he was yet speaking, the groom came out and entering the closet, sat down on the stool.
So she took up Bedreddin, as he lay asleep, clad only in his shirt and skull-cap, and flew away with him, accompanied by the Afrit. But the dawn overtook them midway and the muezzins began to chant the call to morning-prayer.
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