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 1    IV|      Certainly, they called her Irene, for she was a Greek girl."~ ~
 2    IV|       relate her own story, for Irene was the very name she had
 3    IV|          continued the maiden, "Irene went a-rowing on the sea
 4    IV|   carried away captive.~ ~"Poor Irene! she was not even able to
 5    IV|  demanded, and forthwith handed Irene over to the slave-women
 6    IV|    praised her loudly. But when Irene heard their praises she
 7    IV|   narghilis. But what impressed Irene far more than all this magnificence,
 8    IV|       everything greedily. Here Irene was seized by a black eunuch -
 9    IV|              The Moor commanded Irene to fall on her face before
10    IV|        face before the Sultana. Irene fell on her face accordingly,
11    IV|         handmaidens to let down Irene's tresses, and as she stood
12    IV|        about her arms and neck. Irene knew not the meaning of
13    IV|          therefore, I say.' But Irene at these words would fain
14    IV|         her lap. At a later day Irene discovered that this was
15    IV|      Sultana. The following day Irene could not see this damsel
16    IV|         the Sultana Asseki took Irene by the hand and conducted
17    IV|       The Sultan commanded that Irene should be expelled from
18    IV|         The Sultana herself led Irene to him, thinking that the
19    IV|        prince made a present of Irene to the Grand Vizier. The
20    IV|       girl, "had no effect upon Irene. She never failed to invoke
21    IV|      the highest bidder. And so Irene fell to a poor hawker who
22    IV| slave-girl going by the name of Irene who feigned to be dead."~ ~
23    IV|     thrice over. I command you, Irene, to take up your veil and
24   XII|  towards the mountains.~ ~"Poor Irene!" sighed Janaki, buckling