Which sentences best summarize the day of Sarah’s arrival in Sarah, Plain and Tall? Papa meets Sarah at the train station and brings her home to meet Anna and Caleb. Sarah has gifts for the children and introduces the family to her cat.

Caleb and Anna do their chores while they wait for Papa to return. When the children meet Sarah, they ask her whether she has brought the sea with her.

Caleb and Anna talk about what it will be like meeting Sarah. When she arrives, the children see that she looks exactly as she described herself in her letters.

Papa feeds and waters the horses before going into town. Sarah and Papa return to the house and Sarah compares the way the land rolls to the way the sea moves.

ah, shun the horrid gulf! by scylla fly.

there is no woman's sides

can bide the beating of so strong a passion

as love doth give my heart; no woman's heart

so big, to hold so much; they lack retention.

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the thousand and one nights – or, as i prefer to call them in the following forpurely practical reasons: the arabian nights – as we perceive them three hundredyears after antoine galland’s epochal french adaptation bear a distinct arabicimprint. meanwhile, the commonly accepted model for their textual historyacknowledges various stages in the conceptualization and effective formation ofboth the collection’s characteristic frame story and the embedded repertoire. thevast majority of tales in the preserved manuscripts of the nights has beenintegrated into the collection during two periods of arabic influence, the so-calledbaghdad and cairo periods (gerhardt 1963: 115–374). these “arabic” stages arepreceded by an iranian version, probably dating to pre-islamic times, which in itsturn profits from both structural devices and narrative contents originating fromindian tradition. considering the eminent position that iran and iranian culturehold in the early stages of the textual history of the arabian nights, surprisinglyfew details are known concerning the collection’s relation to and its actualposition within the iranian cultural context. in the following, i will discuss linksbetween the arabian nights and iranian culture on several levels. in surveyingthese links, i will treat five major areas: (1) the iranian prototype of the nights; (2) tales of alleged persian origin; (3) persian characters within the tales; (4)persian translations of the arabian nights; and (5) the position of the arabiannights in modern iran