Note 473
TALE OF NUR AL-DIN AND HIS SON. (continued 2)
The woman-like spite of the eunuch intended to hurt the grandmother's feelings.
…nserve of pomegranate-grains and he set some of it before us: by Allah! I never ate in my life its like, nor tasted aught nastier than this stuff which is now before us."[FN#473] Badr al-Din Hasan's mother was angry at this and said, "Needs thou must go back to the cook and bring me a saucer of conserved pomegranate-grains from that which is in his shop and show it to thy master, that he may say which be the better and the nic…
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