The company marvelled at the generosity of this man
and his clemency[1] and courtesy, and the Sultan said,
‘Tell us another of thy stories.’[2] ‘It is well,’ answered
the officer, ‘They avouch that
- ↑ i.e. his forbearance in relinquishing his blood-revenge for his brother.
- ↑ In the text, by an evident error, Shehriyar is here made to ask
Shehrzad for another story and she to tell it him.
