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161 Alaeddin, and accordingly said to him, “O my lord, all the treasures of the world were not worth a paring of thy daughter Bedrulbudour’s nails; indeed, Thy Highness overrateth this upon her.”

When the Sultan heard the Vizier’s words, he knew that this his speech arose from the excess of his envy; so he turned to Alaeddin’s mother and said to her, “O woman, go to thy son and tell him that I accept of him

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