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of that dear Child, and Schemſeddin Mohammed entring found her buried in the laſt Afflicttion.
He made his Compliment, and after beſeeching her to ſuſpend her Tears and Groans, gave her to know he had the Honour to be her Brother-in-law, and acquainted her with the Reaſon of his Journey from Cairo to Balſora.
Theſe Words were no ſooner ſpoken, than Scheherazade drop’d her Story upon the Approach of Day; but reſumed the Thread of it next Night in the following manner.
The Hundred and Fifteenth Night.
SChemſeddin Mohammed, continued the Vizier Giafar, after acquainting his Sifter-in-Law with all that paſſed at Cairo on his Daughter’s Wedding Night, after informing her of the Surprizal occaſioned by the Diſcovery of the Paper ſew’d up in Bedreddin’s Turban, preſented to her Agib and the beautiful Lady.
The Widow of Noureddin Ali, who had ſtill continued ſitting like a Woman moped, and weaned from the Affairs of this World, no ſooner underſtood by his Diſcourſe that her dear Son whom the lamented ſo bitterly, might ſtill be alive, than ſhe aroſe, and with repeated Hugs embraced the beautiful Lady, and her Grand-child Agib, and, perceiving in the Youth the Features of Bedreddin, ſhed Tears of a quite different Stamp from what ſhe had been ſo long accuſtomed to ſhed. She could not forbear kiſſing the Youth, who, for his part received her Embraces with all the Demonſtrations of Joy he was capable of. Madam, ſaid Schemſeddin Mohammed, it is time to wipe off your Tears, and ceaſe your Groans, you muſt think of going along with us to Egypt. The Sultan of Balſora gives me leave to carry you thither, and I do not doubt but you’ll agree to it. I am hopeful we at laſt find out your Son my Nephew; and if that comes to paſs the Hiſtory of him, of you, of my Daughter, and that of my own Adventures, will deſerve to be committed ro Writing, and ſo tranſmitted to Poſterity.
The Widow of Noureddin Ali heard this Propoſal with Pleaſure, and from that very Minute order’d the Preparations to be made tor her Departure, While that was a do-ing,