overcome with excess of joy, embraced his daughter, and kissed her eyes; he also kissed the chief of the dervises’
hands, and said to his officers, “What reward does he deserve that has thus cured my daughter?” They all cried, “He deserves her in marriage.” “That is what I had in my thoughts,” said the sultan; “and I make him my son-in-law from this moment.” Some time after the prime vizier died, and the sultan conferred the
overcome with excess of joy, embraced his daughter, and kissed her eyes; he also kissed the chief of the dervises’
hands, and said to his officers, “What reward does he deserve that has thus cured my daughter?” They all cried, “He deserves her in marriage.” “That is what I had in my thoughts,” said the sultan; “and I make him my son-in-law from this moment.” Some time after the prime vizier died, and the sultan conferred the