Английские сказки для мальчиков / English Fairy Tales for Boys

So she asked, “O my son, what happened to you? Are you sick?”

Then Aladdin turned to his mother and said to her, “O my mother, I am well and not sick at all. But I saw the daughter of the Sultan. I fell in love with her. I want to marry her!”

When his mother heard his words, she feared, “O my son! You are mad. She is the Sultan’s daughter.”

Aladdin answered, “No, I’m not mad. I will win the lovely princess! I cannot live without her. I will marry her.”

His mother said to him, “But who will tell Sultan about it? You can not tell him yourself.

You must find a right person.[43 - find a right person – найти подходящего человека]”

Aladdin answered, “I have you! Please ask the Sultan about his daughter.”

His mother said, “Cast away[44 - cast away – отбрось, выбрось] this thought and think whose son you are. You are the child of a poor tailor. And I am very poor, too. So how can you ask about marriage to a daughter of the Sultan?”

But at last she agreed to go.

His mother took a napkin and laid in it the magic fruits from the magical garden.

They shone like the most beautiful jewels. She entered the palace hall. But the Sultan did not notice her.

She went every day and stood in the same place.

On the sixth day the Sultan said to his vizir, “Every day I see a woman. She carries something in a napkin. Who is she? Call her next time, I will see what she wants.”

Next day the Sultan said to her, “Good woman,[45 - Good woman – зд. Добрая женщина] tell me what you want.”

She told him about her son’s love for the princess.

The Sultan asked her kindly what she had in the napkin. She unfolded the jewels and presented them to him.

The Sultan was very amazed. The vizir wanted the princess for his own son. So he begged the Sultan to withhold the woman for three months. During that time his son could make a richer present.

The Sultan told Aladdin’s mother, “I will think about it. But you must not appear before me again for three months. After that your son can marry my daughter.

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Aladdin waited patiently for nearly two months. But one day he heard the news: the son of the grand-vizir was going to marry the Sultan’s daughter.

Aladdin rubbed the Lamp. The Jinn appeared and asked, “What is your will?”

Aladdin replied, “The Sultan broke his promise[46 - broke his promise – нарушил своё обещание] to me. The vizir’s son is going to marry the princess. My command is: tonight you must bring here the bride and bridegroom.