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these sort of stories to divert me; therefore I renounce in your
favour the cruel law I had imposed on myself; and I will have

you to be looked upon as the deliverer of the many damsels I
had resolved to have sacrificed to my unjust resentment.
The sultaness cast herself at his feet, and embraced them with
the marks of a most lively and sincere acknowledgment.
The grand visier was the first that learned this agreeable news
from the sultan's own mouth, which presently was carried to all
the towns and provinces, and gained the sultan and the lovely

Scheherazade the blessings of all the people of the large empire
of the Indies.

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