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 "O my lady, O mother of my husband, it grieveth me to part from thee. When thy son returneth, and longeth, and wearieth after me, tell him to come to me in the Islands of Wak." Then she took flight with her children for her own country.



But the old woman wept and moaned and fainted away for grief. And Lady Zubaydah said: "If thou hadst told me that this would happen I would not have gainsaid thee. And had I known she was of the Flying Jinn I would not have allowed her to don the dress. But now, words profit nothing, so do thou acquit me of