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younger sister to their prejudice, but were altogether
employed in dressing themselves against the celebration of

their marriages. Some days afterwards, when they had an
opportunity of seeing each other at the public balls, the
eldest sister said to the other, Well, sister, what say you to
our sister's great fortune? Is not she a fine person to be a
sultaness? I must own, said the other sister, I cannot conceive
what charms the sultan could discover in her, to be so
bewitched by a young jade: That because she was somewhat

younger than us, was that a reason sufficient for him to
prefer her? You were as worthy of his bed, and in justice he
ought to have made choice of you.
Sister, said the elder, I should not have said any thing, if the
sultan had but pitched upon you; but that he should chuse
that pert slut, is what grieves me; but I will revenge myself;
and you, I think, are as much concerned as me; therefore I
would have us concert measures together, and communicate
to me which way you can imagine to mortify her; while I, on

my side, will inform you what my desire of revenge shall
suggest to me. After this wicked plot, the two sisters saw
each other very frequently, and consulted how they might
disturb and interrupt the happiness of the sultaness their
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