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# Opening, part 34 · page 2

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- [101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/34/101/) — But even prayer did not restore peace to my troubled spirit, and I could not face my wife until I had made up my mind what future course I should pursue in regard to her.
- [102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/34/102/) — I therefore spent the morning roaming about from one garden to another, turning over various plans for compelling my wife to give up her horrible ways; I thought of using violence to make her submit, but felt reluctant to be unkind to her.
- [103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/34/103/) — Besides, I had an instinct that gentle means had the best chance of success; so, a little soothed, I turned towards home, which I reached about the hour of dinner.
- [104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/34/104/) — As soon as I appeared, Amina ordered dinner to be served, and we sat down together.
- [105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/34/105/) — As usual, she persisted in only picking a few grains of rice, and I resolved to speak to her at once of what lay so heavily on my heart.
- [106](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/34/106/) — "Amina," I said, as quietly as possible, "you must have guessed the surprise I felt, when the day after our marriage you declined to eat anything but a few morsels of rice, and altogether behaved in such a manner that most husbands would have been deeply wounded.
- [107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/34/107/) — However I had patience with you, and only tried to tempt your appetite by the choicest dishes I could invent, but all to no purpose.
- [108](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/34/108/) — Still, Amina, it seems to me that there be some among them as sweet to the taste as the flesh of a corpse?"

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