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Unknown Tales from the ArabicVolume 2… (1901)

When the morning morrowed, the draper went out, still angered against his wife, and the old woman returned to her and found her changed of colour, pale of face, dejected and heart-broken. [So she questioned her of the cause of her dejection and she told her how her husband was angered against her (as she supposed) on account of the burns in the turban-cloth.] “O my daughter,” rejoined the old woman, “be not concerned; for I have a son, a fine-drawer, and he, by thy life, shall fine-draw [the holes] and restore the turban-cloth as it was.”
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Unknown Tales from the ArabicVolume 2… (1901)

The aloes-wood is placed upon burning charcoal in a censer perforated with holes, which is swung towards the person to be fumigated, whose clothes and hair are thus impregnated with the grateful fragrance of the burning wood. An accident such as that mentioned in the text might easily happen during the process of fumigation. ↑ i.e. by God. The old woman is keeping up her assumption of the character of a devotee by canting about Divine direction.
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