show me my way . ' While he prayed he bethought himself that he could get into the garden with a stream of inflowing water . He looked carefully round , fearing to be seen , stripped , slid into the stream and was carried within the great walls . There he hid himself till his loin cloth was dry . The garden was a very Eden , with running water amongst its lawns , with flowers and the lament of doves and the jug-jug of nightingales . It was a place to steal the senses from the brain , and he wandered about and saw the house , but there seemed to be no one there . In the forecourt was a royal seat of polished jasper , and in the middle of the platform was a basin of purest water that flashed like a mirror . He pleased himself with these sights for a while , and then went back to the garden and hid himself from the gardeners and passed the night . Next morning he put on the appearance of a madman and wandered about till he came to a lawn where several pert-faced girls were amusing themselves . On a throne , jewelled and overspread with silken stuffs , sat a girl the splendour of whose beauty lighted up the place , and whose ambergris and attar perfumed the whole air . ` That must be Mihrafruz , ' he thought , ` she is indeed lovely . ' Just then one of the attendants came to the water 's edge to fill a cup , and though the prince was in hiding , his face was reflected in the water . When she saw this image she was frightened , and let her cup fall into the stream , and thought , ` Is it an angel , or a peri , or a man ? ' Fear and trembling took hold of her , and she screamed as women scream . Then some of the other girls came and took her to the princess who asked : ` What is the matter , pretty one ? ' ' O princess ! I went for water , and I saw an image , and I was afraid . ' So another girl went to the water and saw the same thing , and came back with the same story . The princess wished to see for herself ; she rose and paced to the spot with the march of a prancing peacock . When she saw the image she said to her nurse : ` Find out who is reflected in the water , and where he lives . '
Her words reached the prince 's ear , he lifted up his head ; she saw him and beheld beauty such XXXXX she had never seen before .
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