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The Chief Cadi Wrote the Contracts of Marriage

suffered such incredible calamities, drew a thousand blessings upon himself.

“I had hoped,” said Scheherazade, “to tell your majesty the astonishing story of the wonderful lamp of Aladdin, but I perceive that it is so near day that there will not be opportunity. Although the story which I have just brought to so

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