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Sindbad the
Sailor’s concubine-in-chiefmisress of his housefoser mother of his
daughter. Sharing his bridal tubshe shared more fully his hard his-
torythe details of which his zabb inscribed in her as in a logbook
and she came to love and pity him more than herself. Ablywhen the
?t was on himshe played ‘Marjˉanah’ till that ?t passedthough she
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shuddered at what she knew his mad mix of love and rage would lead
to. For in those ?ts he railed not only at his ‘faithless wife’ but at the
doubly innocent Yasmˉ?n as wellcalling her no daughter of his at all
but the spawn of some nameless interloper upon her shameless
mother. Thenwhen presently the ?t passedthere was no more dot-
ing father in all Ba cheap shoes menghdad than Sindbad the Sailorwho claimed to
remember nothing of his mad behavior.
“Jus a few pages into this interludethere came one day to our
gateas I foresaw there wouldan elder man leading a beautiful boy-
child of four or ?ve years and begging an audience with Sindbad.
When my maser saw himthey fell upon each other’s necks in joyous
reunion and then spoke together privately at length in his Tub of
Truth. That night I learned from the messenger in Sindbad’s drawers |
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