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sense. No such young man hath been near thee, nor would I have permitted it.'
Then the Princess lifting her hand in anger saw upon it the ring which Camaralzaman had given her in exchange for her own, and cried to her nurse, 'Woe to thee, O deceitful! Have I also dreamed this ring which is not mine and lost that which belonged to me?' And so saying she started to belabour her nurse so unmercifully, that she would assuredly have killed her had not all the other women and the eunuchs lifted up their voices in lamentation; whereupon the Princess, who greatly disliked loud noises, desisted.
So the nurse, escaping from her vengeance, fled and acquainted the King with all that had happened and with the story which the Princess had told her.
The King came in haste and found that which till now he had only pretended concerning his daughter apparently come true. For excess of
