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I was ashamed before her[FN#325] and, sitting up, asked her, "O

my sister, who and what art thou?"; and she answered, "How soon

hast thou forgotten me! I am she for whom thou wroughtest a good

deed and sowedest the seed of gratitude and slewest her foe; for

I am the serpent whom by Allah's aidance thou didst just now

deliver from the Dragon. I am a Jinniyah and he was a Jinn who

hated me, and none saved my life from him save thou. As soon as

thou freedest me from him I flew on the wind to the ship whence

thy sisters threw thee, and removed all that was therein to thy

house.