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passionate language to him in public, and he would have spared
himself the confusion which I have occasioned him.’ :

The prince began to repent sincerely of the fault he had

_ committed, and was once more upon the point of waking the Prin-
cess of China. ‘It may be,’ said he, recollecting himself, ‘that the
sultan my father has a mind to surprise me with this young lady,
Who knows but he has brought her himself, and is hidden behind
the curtains to make me ashamed of myself. I will content
myself with this ring, as a temembrance of her,

He then gently drew off a fine ring which the princess had on
her finger, and immediately put on one of his own in its place.
After this he fell into a more profound sleep than before through
the enchantment of the genies.

As soon as Prince Camaralzaman was in a sound sleep, Danner
transformed himself, and went and bit the princess so rudely on
the lip that she forthwith awoke, started up, and opening. her eyes,
was not a little surprised to see a beautiful young prince. From
surprise she proceeded to admiration, and from admiration to a
transport of joy.

‘What, cried she, ‘is it you the king my father has designed
-me for a husband? I am indeed most unfortunate for not knowing
it before, for then I should not have made him so angry with me.
Wake then, wake !’

So saying, she took Prince _Camaralzaman by the arm and
shook -him so that he would have awaked, had not Maimoune
increased his sleep by enchantment. She shook him several times,
and finding he did not wake, she seized his hand, and kissing it
eagerly, perceived he had a ring upon his finger which greatly resem-
bled hers, and which she was convinced was her own, by seeing she
had another on her finger instead of it. She could not compréhend
how this exchange could have been made. Tired with her fruitless _
endeavours to awaken the prince, she soon fell asleep.