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She came close up to me and greeted me with her sweet voice and

pleasant speech and presently said, "Fetch me the Shroff and

weigh thy money."[FN#558] So she gave me the price of what goods

I had gotten for her and more, and fell to talking freely with

me, till I was like to die of joy and delight. Presently she

asked me, "Hast thou a wife?"; and I answered "No, indeed: I have

never known woman"; and began to shed tears.