Sire, Replied the Queen of Beauty.

The Sultan asked his daughter what she could do to disenchant the young prince. She told him that her mother was an accomplished magician, and had taught her seventy rules of her art by means of which she could transplant your capital into the middle of the ocean. "I really had no idea you were so clever," said the Sultan. There are many out of the way things it is as well to know, but one should never boast of them"