Unknown, Tales from the ArabicVolume 2… (1901)
“ So the lieutenant of police sent after him and fetched him to the assessor, who, when he saw him, said to him, “Get thee to such an one, her with whom thou marriedst me, and cry out upon her, and when she cometh to thee, demand of her the contract and take it from her and bring it to us.” And he signed to him, as who should say, “Bear me out in the lie and screen me, for that she is a strange woman and I am in fear of the lieutenant of police who standeth at the door; and we beseech God the Most High to screen us and you from the trouble of this world. ”
