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me to relate it for her amusement, I do not doubt she will take great pleasure in it.'
The princess of Cashmere, less perhaps to satisfy her curiosity than to content that of her women who pressed her to hear this story, permitted Sutlumemé to begin the recital of it; which she did in these terms.
(Be it known now that hereafter the Persian sage interpolates, in the manner of the Arabian scribe, the intervals between the bathing times of the princess between the tale-tellings of the nurse. These intervals have been omitted in this English rendering that the stories may move uninterrupted front beginning to end.)
