Aladdin and the Magic Lamp
Princess Badrou'l-Budour
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Same player, shoot again! The newlyweds spend their second night exactly like their first one.
And princess Badrou'l-Budour was even more confused when the next day she tells her father what she experienced.
ON THE TWENTY-SECOND NIGHT
Sheherazade said:
The sultan and his wife would not believe any of what the princess said; and the princess's mother said to her in a whispering voice, "It's always the way things are, my daughter! But be careful not to tell anyone, because we never tell such things! And people who would hear that you would think you were crazy! Get up, then, and worry no more about it, and take care not to disturb, by your bad looks, the celebrations that are given today at the palace, in your honor, and which will last forty days. and forty nights, not only in our city but throughout the kingdom. Come, my daughter! be content, and quickly forget the various incidents of this night!"
Then the queen called her women and charged them with the care of the princess's toilet; and she went out, with the sultan, who was greatly perplexed, in search of her son-in-law, the son of the vizier. And they ended up meeting him when he was coming back from the hammam. And the queen, to be fixed on the words of her daughter, began to question the moping young man about what had happened. But he would not confess anything of what he had endured, and, concealing the whole adventure, for fear of being ridiculed and rejected by his wife's parents, he contented himself with replying: "By Allah! and what happened, then, that you have, when questioning me, this singular air?" And the sultana, more and more convinced that everything her daughter had told her was the effect of some nightmare, thought she was doing the right thing by not insisting on her son-in-law and said to him: "Glorified be Allah. that everything went smoothly and painlessly! I recommend to you, my son, a lot of sweetness towards your wife because she is delicate!"
And she left him, with these words, and went into her apartments, to watch the rejoicings and diversions of the day. And that's it for now for her and for the newlyweds!
As for Aladdin, who was well aware of what was happening to the palace, he spent his day reveling in the thought of the excellent trick he had just played on the vizier's son. But he did not consider himself satisfied and wanted to savor his rival's humiliation to the end. So he thought fit not to give him a moment's respite; and, as soon as night fell, he took his lamp and rubbed it. And the genie appeared before him, pronouncing the same formula as the previous times. And Aladdin said to him: “O servant of the lamp, go to the palace of the sultan! And, as soon as you see the newlyweds lying together, take them away with their beds, and bring them to me here, as you did the night before." And the genie hastened to go and carry out the order and was not long in returning with his load, which he deposited in Aladdin's room, to immediately carry off the vizier's son and thrust him headlong into the water closet. And Aladdin did not fail to take the empty place and lie down next to the princess, but with the same decency as the first time. And after putting the saber between them, he turned to the side of the wall and fell asleep quietly. And, the next day, things happened exactly as the day before, in that the genie, following Aladdin's orders, put the vizier's son back with Badrou'l-Budour and carried them both, with the bed, to the bridal chamber in the sultan's palace.
Now the sultan, more impatient than ever to hear from his daughter after the second night, arrived at that precise moment in the bridal chamber, all alone this time; for he dreaded above all the bad humor of the sultana, his wife, and preferred to question the princess himself. And as soon as the vizier's son, on the verge of mortification, heard the sultan's footsteps, he jumped out of bed and fled out of the room, to run and wash his face in the hammam. And the sultan entered and advanced to his daughter's bed, and he lifted the mosquito net; and, after embracing the princess, he said to her: "Tell me, my daughter! I do hope you didn't have the same dreadful nightmare last night, the extravagant adventures of which you told us yesterday! Let's go ! can you tell me how you spent last night?" But the princess, instead of answering, burst into tears and hid her face in her hands, so as not to see the irritated eyes of her father, who no longer understood any of this. And he waited a while, to give her time to calm down; but as she continued to weep and gasp, he finally flew into a rage and drew his saber and exclaimed: "By my life, if you don't tell me the truth right away, your head will jump off your shoulders!"
Then the poor princess, doubly terrified, was obliged to stop her tears; in a broken voice, she said: “O my beloved father, please! don't be angry with me! Because if you wanted to listen to me, now that my mother is no longer here to incite you against me, you would excuse me, without any doubt, and you would pity me and take the necessary precautions to prevent me from dying of confusion and terror! For, indeed, if I should once again experience the terrible things that I experienced this last night, you would find me, the next day, dead in my bed! So have pity on me, O my father, and let your hearing and your heart sympathize with my sorrows and my turmoil...
— At this point in her narration, Scheherazade saw the morning appear and quietly fell silent.
The image representing princess Badrou'l-Budour has been created by @curamax in this post.
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