“What are you doing, Abou Hassan? Did ever a son so well brought up as you dare to strike his mother? are you not ashamed so to treat yours, who loves you so tenderly?”
Abou Hassan, still full of fury, looked at him who spoke without returning an answer.
And then staring on all the rest of his neighbours who had followed, said
“Who is that Abou Hassan you speak of? Is it me you call by that name?”
From The Sleeper Awakened
2022, digital.