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“'The cadi's door was half-open, and when I went in I found the old lady waiting for me. As soon as she had shut the door, she conducted me to the apartment of the young lady with whom I was in love. But I had hardly commenced a conversation with her, when we heard a great noise in the street. The young lady ran to the widnow, and, looking through the blinds, perceived that the cadi her father was already returning from prayers. I looked out at the same time, and saw the barber seated ecactly opposite the house, on the same bench from whence I had beheld the lady for the first time.”
excerpt from “The Story told by the tailor,” Dalziel's Illustrated Arabian Nights' Entertainments; The Text Revised and Emendated throughout by H.W. Dulcken, PhD, pg. 222
