“that the sultan of Egypt has a vizier, Shumse ad Deen Mahummud, who has a daughter most beautiful and accomplished. The sultan having heard of this young lady’s beauty, sent the other day for her father, and said, �I understand you have a daughter to marry; I would have her for my bride: will not you consent?’
The vizier, who did not expect this proposal, was troubled, and instead of accepting it joyfully, which another in his place would certainly have done,
“that the sultan of Egypt has a vizier, Shumse ad Deen Mahummud, who has a daughter most beautiful and accomplished. The sultan having heard of this young lady’s beauty, sent the other day for her father, and said, �I understand you have a daughter to marry; I would have her for my bride: will not you consent?’
The vizier, who did not expect this proposal, was troubled, and instead of accepting it joyfully, which another in his place would certainly have done,
