The Arabian Nights

your father is; alas! I wonder that I am yet alive! Your governor, the eunuch, is dead, and the prince whom you have delivered from his enchantment has lost one of his eyes.” He could say no more, for his tears, sighs, and sobs, deprived him of the power of utterance.

Suddenly the princess exclaimed, “I burn! I burn!” She found that the fire had at last seized upon her vital parts, which made her still cry “I burn!” until death


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your father is; alas! I wonder that I am yet alive! Your governor, the eunuch, is dead, and the prince whom you have delivered from his enchantment has lost one of his eyes.” He could say no more, for his tears, sighs, and sobs, deprived him of the power of utterance.

Suddenly the princess exclaimed, “I burn! I burn!” She found that the fire had at last seized upon her vital parts, which made her still cry “I burn!” until death


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