” replied Scheherazade, “the example you have set before me will not induce me to change my resolution. I will never cease importuning you until you present me to the sultan as his bride.” The vizier, perceiving that she persisted in her demand, replied, “Alas!
then, since you will continue obstinate, I shall be obliged to treat you in the same manner as the merchant whom I before referred to treated his wife a short time after.”
” replied Scheherazade, “the example you have set before me will not induce me to change my resolution. I will never cease importuning you until you present me to the sultan as his bride.” The vizier, perceiving that she persisted in her demand, replied, “Alas!
then, since you will continue obstinate, I shall be obliged to treat you in the same manner as the merchant whom I before referred to treated his wife a short time after.”
