{"collection":"asia","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/asia/mps/mps33.htm","path":"asia/mps/mps33.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/asia/mps/mps33.htm","text":"1054P\u2019hatman, Usen's wife, met him in front of the door, joyful she saluted him, she showed her pleasure; they greeted each other, they went in and seated themselves. As I have observed, his coming annoyed not Dame P\u2019hatman.\n1055Dame P\u2019hatman was attractive to the eye, not young but brisk, of a good figure, dark in complexion, plump-faced, not wizened, a lover of (female) minstrels and singers, a wine-drinker; she had abundance of elegant gowns and head-dresses.\n1056That night Dame P\u2019hatman entertained him right well. The knight presented beautiful gifts; they that received them said: \"They are worthy!\" P\u2019hatman's entertainment of him was worth while; by God! she lost not. When they had drunken and eaten, the knight went outs to sleep.\n1057In the morning he showed all his wares, he had them all unpacked; the fairest were laid aside for the king, he had the price counted out; he said to the merchants: \"Take them away!\" He loaded them, (and) had them carried away. He said: \"Sell as ye will; reveal not who I am!\"\n1058The knight was clad as a merchant; he was by no means dressed in his proper raiment. Sometimes P\u2019hatman calls on him, sometimes he visits P\u2019hatman. They sat together; they conversed with refined discourse. Absence from him was death to P\u2019hatman, as Ramin's was to Vis. 1\n171:1 For the Story of the Loves of Vis and Ramin, cf. J.R.A.S., July 1902. There are two other references in Rust\u2019haveli, 182, 1519.","title":"The Man in the Panther's Skin: XXX. Avt\u2019handil's Arrival at P\u2019hatman's; Her Reception of Him and Her Joy","type":"page"}