Note 498
THE HUNCHBACK’S TALE.
In Europe we should add "and all fled, especially the women." But the fatalism inherent in the Eastern mind makes the great difference.
…ying, "O my son, Allah keep thee! what part paineth thee and where hath this small-pox[FN#497] attacked thee?" So all who saw them said "'Tis a child sick of small-pox." [FN#498] They went along asking for the physician's house till folk directed them to that of a leach which was a Jew. They knocked at the door, and there came down to them a black slave girl who opened and, seeing a man bearing a babe, and a woman with him, sa…
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