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[ I am told that it is very doubtful whether this was a bona fide offer; but Lady Burton believed it to be so.]
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[ Romance of Isabel Lady Burton, vol. ii., p. 725.]
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[ The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton.]
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[ Lady Burton, owing to a faulty translation, quite mistook Nafzawi's meaning. She was thinking of the concluding verse as rendered in the 1886 edition, which runs as follows:—
"I certainly did wrong to put this book together,
But you will pardon me, nor let me pray in vain;
O God! award no punishment for this on judgment day!
And thou, O reader, hear me conjure thee to say, So be it!"
But the 1904 and, more faithful edition puts it very differently. See Chapter xxxiv.]