139 ([return])
[ Containing the rooms in which the girl or girls were sold. See Pilgrimage i. 87.]
140 ([return])
[ Dozy quotes this passage but cannot explain the word Fawwák.]
141 ([return])
[ "A passage has apparently dropped out here. The Khalif seems to have gone away without buying, leaving Ishac behind, whereupon the latter was accosted by another slave-girl, who came out of a cell in the corridor." So says Mr. Payne. vol. ii. 207. The "raiser of the veil" means a fitting purchaser.]
142 ([return])
[ i.e. "Choice gift of the Fools," a skit upon the girl's name "Tohfat al-Kulúb" = Choice gift of the Hearts. Her folly consisted in refusing to be sold at a high price, and this is often seen in real life. It is a Pundonor amongst good Moslems not to buy a girl and not to sleep with her, even when bought, against her will.]
143 ([return])
[ "Every one cannot go to Corinth." The question makes the assertion emphatic.]