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Dinarzade had no particular gifts to distinguish her from other girls, but her sister was clever and courageous in the highest degree. The grand-vizir himself was the father of two daughters, of whom the elder was called Scheherazade, and the younger Dinarzade. In one house was a father weeping for the loss of his daughter, in another perhaps a mother trembling for the fate of her child and instead of the blessings that had formerly been heaped on the Sultan's head, the air was now full of curses. This behaviour caused the greatest horror in the town, where nothing was heard but cries and lamentations. The poor man fulfilled his task with reluctance, but there was no escape, and every day saw a girl married and a wife dead. So every evening he married a fresh wife and had her strangled the following morning before the grand-vizir, whose duty it was to provide these unhappy brides for the Sultan. The blow was so heavy that his mind almost gave way, and he declared that he was quite sure that at bottom all women were as wicked as the sultana, if you could only find them out, and that the fewer the world contained the better. It was therefore with the deepest shame and sorrow that he accidentally discovered, after several years, that she had deceived him completely, and her whole conduct turned out to have been so bad, that he felt himself obliged to carry out the law of the land, and order the grand-vizir to put her to death. Now the Sultan Schahriar had a wife whom he loved more than all the world, and his greatest happiness was to surround her with splendour, and to give her the finest dresses and the most beautiful jewels. Indeed, after ten years, during which this state of things had not ceased to trouble him, Schahriar cut off the country of Great Tartary from the Persian Empire and made his brother king.

The two sons who survived him loved each other tenderly, and it was a real grief to the elder, Schahriar, that the laws of the empire forbade him to share his dominions with his brother Schahzeman. His subjects loved him, and his neighbors feared him, and when he died he left his kingdom in a more prosperous and powerful condition than any king had done before him.

In the chronicles of the ancient dynasty of the Sassanidæ, who reigned for about four hundred years, from Persia to the borders of China, beyond the great river Ganges itself, we read the praises of one of the kings of this race, who was said to be the best monarch of his time. Follow Global Grey on Facebook or Twitter Excerpt from 'Arabian Nights Entertainments'

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