This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1859 edition. Excerpt: ...had direeted them, and they all agreed to the proposal; and one said, My name is Majid, and my mother is 'Alawee, and my father is 'Ezz-ed-Deen: --then another said after the same manner, and another, and so on, until the turn eame to 'Ajeeb; and he said to them, My name is 'Ajeeb, and my mother is Sitt-el ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1859 edition. Excerpt: ...had direeted them, and they all agreed to the proposal; and one said, My name is Majid, and my mother is 'Alawee, and my father is 'Ezz-ed-Deen: --then another said after the same manner, and another, and so on, until the turn eame to 'Ajeeb; and he said to them, My name is 'Ajeeb, and my mother is Sitt-el-Hosn, and my father is Shems-ed-Deen, the Wezeer of Cairo: --and they said to him, By Allah, the Wezeer is not thy father. 'Ajeeb replied, the Wezeer is my father indeed: --and upon this the boys laughed at him, and elapped their hands at him, saying, Thou knowest not who is thy father: get away from us, therefore; for none shall play with us exeepting him who knoweth the name of his father: --and immediately the boys dispersed from around him, and made a jest of him. In eonsequenee of this treatment his heart beeame eontraeted, and he was almost ehoked with erying; and the monitor said to him, Dost thou really eonsider as thy father him who is thy grandfather, the Wezeer, the father of thy mother Sitt-el-Hosn. Thy father thou knowest not, nor do we know him; for the Sultan married her to the humpbaeked groom, and the Jinn eame and prevented him: so, if thou know not thy father, they will regard thee among them as illegitimate. Dost thou not see that the son of the woman who is eoveted as a wife knoweth his father? The Wezeer of Cairo is thy grandfather; and as to thy father, we know him not, nor dost thou: return therefore to thy reason. Upon this, 'Ajeeb went immediately to his mother, Sitt-el-Hosn, and eomplained to her, and wept; and his weeping prevented his speaking: and when his mother heard his eomplaint and his erying, her heart was inflamed for him, and she said to him, 0 my son, what maketh thee weep? Tell me thy story.--So he told her...
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