The Enchanted Parrot : Being a Selection From the "suka Saptati", Or, the Seventy Tales of a Parrot
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Rambhika thereupon began to redouble her attentions to her visitor, but he remonstrated, saying, " Oh 1 this won't do at all ! Did you not say that I was your brother ? If so you are my sister, and you have got all you want." " Don't talk such nonsense," she replied ; '•' has it not been said — " ' He who rejects the advances of a beautiful damsel, and despises her sighs, is fit only for the infernal regions ' ? " With these words she uttered a piercing shriek, and woke up her husband. The youn...g man, terrified at what was going to happen, fell at her feet, and promised her that if 48 THE ENCHANTED PARROT she would spare his life he would do anything she wanted. So she took some meal and milk that was standing near, lighted a candle, and was stirring them up when her husband came in. She said, " Don't disturb yourself ! My brother has a fit of the colic, and I was so frightened that I screamed out, and I am making this mixture to try and ease him." Her fool of a husband saw what she was doing, and believing her story went back to bed.
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