She answered, 'Bhanavar is my name with that people.'

And he whispered, 'Surely when they speak of thee they say not Bhanavar

solely, but Bhanavar the Beautiful?'

She started and sought the eye of the Chief, and it was fixed on her face

in a softened light, as if his soul had said that thing. Then she sighed,

and exclaimed, 'Unhappy are the beautiful! born to misery! Allah dressed

them in his grace and favour for their certain wretchedness! Lo, their

countenances are as the sun, their existence as the desert; barren are

they in fruits and waters, a snare to themselves and to others!'

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