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I'm the bride's father and no Ifrit." "Enough for thee that thou

hast well nigh done me die, " answered Quasimodo; "now go thy

ways before he come upon thee who hath served me thus. Could ye

not marry me to any save the lady-love of buffaloes and the

beloved of Ifrits? Allah curse her and curse him who married me

to her and was the cause of this my case,"-And Shahrazad

perceived the dawn of day, and ceased to say her permitted say.

When it was the Twenty-third Night,