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ne day, when the two princes were at hunting, and the
princess Parizade stayed at home, a religious old woman came
to the gate, and desired leave to go in and say her prayers, it
being then the hour. The servants went and asked the princess's
leave, who ordered them to shew her into the oratory; which
the intendant had taken care to fit up in this house, for want of a

mosque in the neighbourhood; and bid them also, after she had
done prayers, shew her the house and gardens, and then bring
her to her.
The religious old woman went into the oratory, said her
prayers, and when she came out again, two of the princess's
women, who waited on her, invited her to see the house and
gardens, which civility she accepted of, and
followed them from one apartment to another, and observed, as
a person ho understood what belonged to furniture, the nice

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