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The Newcomes

CHAPTER XII
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They are beautiful, sir.

You seem actually to read the Arabian Nights, you know, only in pictures.

There is Scheherazade telling the stories, and--what do you call her ?--Dinarzade and the Sultan sitting in bed and listening.

Such a grim old cove! You see he has cut off ever so many of his wives' heads.

I can't think where that chap gets his ideas from.


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