The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1,001 Nights by Anonymous & Ursula Lyons & Robert Irwin

Author:Anonymous & Ursula Lyons & Robert Irwin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Classics, Fairy Tales; Folk Tales; Legends & Mythology, Literary Criticism, Middle Eastern
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2010-02-04T05:41:01+00:00

She then fainted away and people began to weep, while I myself again fell down unconscious, to the alarm of the sailors, leading one of the Hashimite’s servants to ask: ‘How is it that you took this madman on board?’ They told each other: ‘We can land him at some village or other and get rid of him.’ The thought of this greatly distressed and pained me, but I summoned up all my powers of endurance and told myself that the only way in which I could avoid this was by letting the girl know that I was on board, so that she could stop them from throwing me off.

We sailed on until, on coming near a village, the ship’s master invited everyone to go ashore. They disembarked, this being in the evening, but I stayed on board, went behind the curtain and took the lute, altering the tuning of its strings until it was adapted to the mode that the girl had learned from me. Then I went back to my place in the ship…

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