` That night , when the whole caravan was fast asleep , we raised the upper part of our boxes and by the help of Thelamis climbed silently out . We next went back some distance along the way we had come , then , striking into another road , reached at last the retreat prepared for us by the dervish . Here we found food and rest , and I need not say what happiness it was to be free once more . ` The dervish soon became a slave to our beauty , and the day after our escape he proposed that we should allow him to conduct us to an inn situated at a short distance , where we should find two Jews , owners of precious talismans which did not really belong to them . `` Try , '' said the dervish , `` by some means to get possession of them . '' ` The inn , though not on the direct road to Constantinople , was a favourite one with merchants , owing to the excellence of the food , and on our arrival we discovered at least six or eight other people who had stopped for refreshment . They greeted us politely , and we sat down to table together . ` In a short time the two men described by the dervish entered the room , and at a sign from him my sister made room at her side for one , while I did the same for the other . ` Now the dervish had happened to mention that `` their brother had danced . '' At the moment we paid no attention to this remark , but it came back to our minds now , and we determined that they should dance also . To accomplish this we used all our arts and very soon bent them to our wills , so that they could refuse us nothing . At the end of the day we remained possessors of the talismans and had left them to their fate , while the Prince and Thelamis fell more in love with us than ever , and declared that we were more lovely than any women in the world . ` The sun had set before we quitted the inn , and we had made no plans as to where we should go next , so we readily consented to the prince 's proposal that we should embark without delay for the Isle of Black Marble . What a place it was ! Rocks blacker than jet towered above its shores and shed thick darkness over the country . Our sailors had not been there before and were nearly as frightened as ourselves , but thanks to Thelamis , who undertook to be our pilot , we landed safely on the beach . ` When we had left the coast behind us , with its walls of jet , we entered a lovely country where the fields were greener , the streams clearer , and the sun brighter than anywhere else . The people crowded round to welcome their prince , whom they loved dearly , but they told him that the king was still full of rage at his son 's refusal to marry his cousin the Princess Okimpare , and also at his flight . Indeed , they all begged him not to visit the capital , as his life would hardly be safe . So , much as I should have enjoyed seeing the home of my beloved prince , I implored him to listen to this wise advice and to let us all go to Thelamis 's palace in the middle of a vast forest .
` To my sister and myself , who had been brought up in a cottage , this house XXXXX Thelamis 's seemed like fairyland .
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