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Story LXXIII

A Dervish of good behaviour and of happy disposition requires not the bread of the Rebat[1] nor the begged morsel. A lady endowed with a beauteous form and chaste face requires not paint, adornment, or turquoise ring.

  1. Rebat is a caravanserai, and also a monastery of Dervishes.

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