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Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand and One Nights — Volume 3 (of 6) Part 1

Note 139 — ALAEDDIN; OR, THE WONDERFUL LAMP. (continued 2)

Richard Francis Burton translation

This sounds ridiculous enough in English, but not in German; e.g. Deine Königliche Hoheit is the formula de rigueur when an Austrian officer, who always addresses brother-soldiers in the familiar second person, is speaking to a camarade who is also a royalty.

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