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had no knowledge of the true motives of the
matriage; but that those who were not unac-
quainted with Morgiana’s good qualities com-
mended his generosity and goodness of heart.

Ali Baba forbore, after this marriage, from going
again to the robbers’ cave, as he had done from

 

 

the time he had brought away his brother Cassim’s
mangled remains, for fear of being surprised. He
kept away after the death of the thirty-seven
robbers and their captain, supposing the other
two, whom he could get no account of, might be
alive.