An Armenian Slave

An old Camel-driver

A Gardener

His wife

Bahram, Servant of the Merchant

A Debtor of Shalnassar

An old city in the Kingdom of Persia

The time is the evening and the night after the wedding-feast of the wealthy merchant.

THE MARRIAGE OF SOBEIDE (1899)

TRANSLATED BY BAYARD QUINCY MORGAN, PH.D.