The Arabian Nights

with a hideous noise like thunder, accompanied with flashes of lightning, and alternate darkness.

This terrible noise in a moment dispelled the fumes of my wine, and made me sensible, but too late, of the folly I had committed.

“Princess,” cried I, “what means all this?” She answered, without any concern for her own misfortune, “Alas! you are undone, if you do not fly immediately.”

I followed her advice, but my fears were so great,


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with a hideous noise like thunder, accompanied with flashes of lightning, and alternate darkness.

This terrible noise in a moment dispelled the fumes of my wine, and made me sensible, but too late, of the folly I had committed.

“Princess,” cried I, “what means all this?” She answered, without any concern for her own misfortune, “Alas! you are undone, if you do not fly immediately.”

I followed her advice, but my fears were so great,


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