The Arabian Nights

and have recovered the use of my speech. This is the cause of my silence, of which you complain.” “Well,” said the enchantress, “to pacify you, I am ready to execute your commands; would you have me restore him?”

“Yes,” replied the sultan; “make haste to set him at liberty, that I be no longer disturbed by his lamentations.”

The enchantress went immediately out of the Palace of Tears; she took a cup of water, and pronounced some words over it,


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and have recovered the use of my speech. This is the cause of my silence, of which you complain.” “Well,” said the enchantress, “to pacify you, I am ready to execute your commands; would you have me restore him?”

“Yes,” replied the sultan; “make haste to set him at liberty, that I be no longer disturbed by his lamentations.”

The enchantress went immediately out of the Palace of Tears; she took a cup of water, and pronounced some words over it,


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