Man-woman relationships -- Fiction; Short stories, English
"Take them," said he, laughing. "And since Ashimullah has already four
wives and yet will give me no wife, why, neither will I give Ashimullah
any wives. But he shall have the four wives that he had before, and
all the city shall hear of the beauty and the virtue of Ashimullah's
wives."
So Lallakalla went home in great joy, and put on her own hair, which
she had fashioned into a wig, and went in to Ashimullah. And they dwelt
happily together, there being no differences in their household, save
in the color of Lallakalla's hair from day to day. But the Sultan
raised a pillar of many-colored marble, black and gold, brown and red,
and inscribed it, "To the Virtues of the Wives of Ashimullah the
Vizier." And henceforward none troubled Ashimullah concerning his
wives.
Hassan, however, was most justly put to death.
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