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neighbourhood, who came, according to custom,
during the funeral, and joining their lamentations
with hers, filled the quarter far and near with
sorrow.

 

In this manner Cassim’s melancholy death was
concealed, and hushed up between Ali Baba, his
wife, Cassim’s widow, and Morgiana, with so much
contrivance that nobody in the city had the least
knowledge or suspicion of the cause of it.