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wife — she whose life's course had been overturned while she lay sunk in the world of dreams...

She woke at the tread of his feet, and he addressed her at once:

— 'God give you a happy morning! Did you see your new friend Tharwa in your dreams? What would you say if I sent someone to bring her to you this very moment?'

Iffet's cheeks flushed, and she answered reproachfully:

— 'We talked of Tharwa yester-day, and that is enough. Yes, Abu Anis, I wish with all my heart to see her again today; but I do not want you to mock me as you did just now. God is beautiful and loves beauty!'

He answered her in earnest:

— 'No, I am not mocking you — God forbid! And God is indeed beautiful and loves beauty, as you said. So come with me a moment to my room, that I may show you a precious gift that reached me this morning from the Sultan.'

And he led her to his room, where he asked her to kiss Tharwa — her new sister... Iffet Hanim did not take the affair in anger, nor did she hesitate to kiss Tharwa, and afterward to surround her with every care and solicitude. And the two lived together for nearly twenty years, during which Tharwa bore seven children, among them three girls who took much of their mother's charms..."

And my grandmother added:

— "Beauty works like magic on the souls of some people. And the veil is among the things that heighten beauty's splendor. There is no better proof of the famous verse — 'And the ear sometimes loves before the eye' — than the story of my friend Iffet Hanim, God sweeten her memory; for she was good of heart, limited of mind, and ignorant that beauty holds a great power before which every power dwindles and every domin-ion melts away. Oh, the foolishness of women, when they describe to their husbands the charms of other women!.."