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And when night did come he led me to the bride chamber and slept

with me on the bed and continued to kiss and embrace me till the

morning-such a night I had never seen in my dreams. I lived with

him a life of happiness and delight for a full month, at the end

of which I asked his leave[FN#340] to go on foot to the bazar and

buy me certain especial stuffs and he gave me permission. So I

donned my mantilla and, taking with me the old woman and a

slave-girl,[FN#341] I went to the khan of the silk-mercers, where

I seated myself in the shop front of a young merchant whom the

old woman recommended, saying to me, "This youth's father died

when he was a boy and left him great store of wealth: he hath by

him a mighty fine[FN#342] stock of goods and thou wilt find what

thou seekest with him, for none in the bazar hath better stuffs

than he.