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135 joy and said, “Since the Sultan hath promised for three months [hence], true, it is long, but in any case my joy is great.” Then he thanked her for her kindness and the pains she had taken and said to her, “By Allah, O my mother, it is as I were in a tomb and now thou hast raised me up therefrom; and I praise God the Most High, for I am presently certified that there is none richer or happier than I in the world.” Then he waited till two of the three months were past, when his mother went out one day of the days, at sundown, to buy oil, and saw the markets closed and the city all decorated and the folk setting candles and flowers in their windows and saw troops, horse and foot, and mounted eunuchs drawn up in state, with cressets and lustres burning. At this wonder took her; so she went to an oilman’s shop there open