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Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand and One Nights — Volume 5 (of 6)

Note 128 — NIGHT ADVENTURE OF HARUN AL-RASHID AND THE YOUTH MANJAB.[106]

Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2

The “young person” here begins a tissue of impertinences which are supposed to show her high degree and her condescension in mating with the jeweller. This is still “pretty Fanny’s way” amongst Moslems.

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