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CHAPTER LXXX — Donjalolo In The Bosom Of His Family
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To pretend to relate the manner in which Juam's ruler passed his captive days, without making suitable mention of his harem, would be to paint one's full-length likeness1 and omit the face. For it was his harem that did much to stamp the character of Donjalolo.
And had he possessed2 but a single spouse3, most discourteous4, surely, to have overlooked the princess; much more, then, as it is; and by how-much the more, a plurality exceeds a unit.
Exclusive of the female attendants, by day waiting upon the person of the king, he had wives thirty in number, corresponding in name to the nights of the moon. For, in Juam, time is not reckoned by days, but by nights; each night of the lunar month having its own designation; which, relatively5 only, is extended to the day.
In uniform succession, the thirty wives ruled queen of the king's heart. An arrangement most wise and judicious6; precluding7 much of that jealousy8 and confusion prevalent in ill-regulated seraglios. For as thirty spouses9 must be either more desirable, or less desirable than one; so is a harem thirty times more difficult to manage than an establishment with one solitary10 mistress. But Donjalolo's wives were so nicely drilled, that for the most part, things went on very smoothly11. Nor were his brows much
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