--- title: Opening, part 28 — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · full text with trees · page 2 description: Opening, part 28, «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: Being a man of great wisdom and learning, he perceived in the short conversation he had with her that he would seek in vain another slave to sur --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/28/page/2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Arabian Nights Entertainments](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/) / Opening, part 28 # Opening, part 28 · page 2 [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/28/) **2** - [101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/28/101/) — The friend, who had been listening behind the curtain, immediately hastened to communicate the news to the rest of the company. - [102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/28/102/) — "If this is so," they said, "we must cease to come here." - [103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/28/103/) — Noureddin re-entering at that moment, they plainly saw, in spite of his efforts to dissemble, that what they had heard was the truth. - [104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/28/104/) — One by one they rose, and each with a different excuse left the room, till presently he found himself alone, though little suspecting the resolution his friends had taken. - [105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/28/105/) — Then, seeing the beautiful Persian, he confided to her the statement of the steward, with many expressions of regret for his own carelessness. - [106](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/28/106/) — "Had I but followed your advice, beautiful Persian," he said, "all this would not have happened, but at least I have this consolation, that I have spent my fortune in the company of friends who will not desert me in an hour of need. - [107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/28/107/) — To-morrow I will go to them, and amongst them they will lend me a sum sufficient to start in some business." - [108](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/28/108/) — Accordingly next morning early Noureddin went to seek his ten friends, who all lived in the same street. - [109](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/28/109/) — Knocking at the door of the first and chief, the slave who opened it left him to wait in a hall while he announced his visit to his master. " - [110](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/28/110/) — Noureddin!" he heard him exclaim quite audibly. " - [111](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/28/111/) — Tell him, every time he calls, that I am not at home." - [112](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/28/112/) — The same thing happened at the second door, and also at the third, and so on with all the ten. - [113](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/28/113/) — Noureddin, much mortified, recognised too late that he had confided in false friends, who abandoned him in his hour of need. - [114](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/28/114/) — Overwhelmed with grief, he sought consolation from the beautiful Persian. [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/28/) **2** - ← previous: [Opening, part 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/27/) - next →: [Opening, part 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/29/) - ↑ back to [The Arabian Nights Entertainments](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/)