Tales, Anecdotes, and Letters
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ISBN13: 9781458854544
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: beard, curfed his ftars, and fcattered duft upon his head. The princefs obferving his conduct, (aid, What has happened to my lord ? if I have difpleafed him, let him par- don me. The labourer roughly enquired, Who has taken away my chair, and every thing belonging to it, The princefs replied, I do not know; and immediately enquired after it; when the cook confefled, faying, I broke it in pieces and burnt it, but did not know that it belonged to Izraeel, the angel of death. Upon this, the princefs brought a chair of gold, fet with pearls and precious ftones, from her father, and faid, Accept this in the room of thine, which is irrecoverable; but her hufband was not to be pacified, and exclaimed angrily, Thinkeft thou I value an earthly chair ? Mine was an c heavenlyheavenly one. He continued to itorm, ' the princefs was terrified, and the unfortunate cook was punifhed. The anger of the labourer, however, only proceeded from fear of his own fafety, for he had obferved fome of the princefs's eunuchs looking at him narrowly, and he knew them, as they did him; therefore he dreaded a difcoveiy of his a-eal character; for which he had retffoBo as they had akeady informed the .viziers of their fufpiciom of the reality of Izraeelj the angel of death. He now faw mo ffefouroe but to flink from the jpalace under .cover of the night, and ferine io fcis ifarmer lodging. Being faey arr; .-u;l at hu'iie, lio. looked -his door, wept, -aad lanaentad h.is loft gran- dsqf tiil he was near perilling of hiunger .rd thir.ft, and the feair accompanying the dread of difcovwy. . . White While he Was in this filiation, fud- denly his rbcirh fhodk, the trails opened, and a monftrous ge'hius appeared, whbfe feet reached to the dep'th of the earth, and his ...
| ISBN-13 | 9781458854544 |
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| ISBN-10 | 145885454X |
| Weight | 0.59 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.41 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 176 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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