Note 684
The Barber’s Tale of his Sixth Brother.
The Castrato at the door is still (I have said) the fashion of Cairo and he acts "Suisse" with a witness.
…e road he suddenly caught sight of a large and handsome mansion, with a detached building wide and lofty at the entrance, where sat sundry eunuchs bidding and forbidding.[FN#684] My brother enquired of one of those idling there and he replied "The palace belongs to a scion of the Barmaki house;" so he stepped up to the door keepers and asked an alms of them "Enter," said they, "by the great gate and thou shalt get what thou se…
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