Note 356 — THE GOOD WIFE OF CAIRO AND HER FOUR GALLANTS.[354]
Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2
i.e. in her haste: the text has “Kharrat.” The Persians who rhetorically exaggerate everything say “rising and sinking like the dust of the road.” [I doubt whether “Kharrat” could have the meaning given to it in the translation. The word in the MS. has no Tashdíd and I think the careless scribe meant it for “Kharajat,” she went out.—St.]