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The wife's separate roomاطاق لکاته

The room the harlot sets apart from the narrator's after his attempt to go to her by force.

The wife's separate room, from The Blind Owl: ink-and-wash drawing
Kind
Place
Persian
اطاق لکاته
Also called
اطاق، اطاقش، اطاق زنم، اطاق زنم، اطاقش، اطاق او، اطاق آن لکاته
First appears
P110.L10
Lines
7
GNML id
plc_wife_room

In the scenes

Where the text names it

P110.L10

تنها خواب راحتی که کردم همان شب بود. از آن شب به‌بعد اطاقش را از اطاق من جدا کرد.

The only comfortable sleep I had was that night. From that night onward she separated her room from mine.

P181.L06

دایه‌ام یک چیز ترسناک برایم گفت. قسم به پیر و پیغمبر می‌خورد که دیده است که پیرمرد خنزرپنزری شبها می‌آید در اطاق زنم؛ و از پشت در شنیده بود که لکاته به او می‌گفته «شال گردنتو واکن!»

My nurse told me something frightening. She swore by the saints and the Prophet that she had seen the old junk dealer come into my wife's room at night; and she had heard from behind the door the harlot saying to him, “Undo your neck-scarf!”

P195.L05

بعد پاورچین به طرف اطاق زنم رفتم. اطاقش تاریک بود، در را آهسته باز کردم؛

Then I went on tiptoe toward my wife’s room. Her room was dark; I opened the door quietly;

P195.L10

دقت کردم که ببینم آیا در اطاق او مرد دیگری هم هست؟ یعنی از فاسقهای او کسی آنجا بود یا نه! ولی او تنها بود.

I looked carefully to see whether there was another man in her room—that is, whether one of her lovers was there or not. But she was alone.

P205.L06

رفتم گزلیک دسته‌استخوانی را که در مجری قایم کرده بودم درآوردم و پاورچین پاورچین به‌طرف اطاق آن لکاته رفتم.

went and took out the bone-handled knife I had hidden in the case, and crept on tiptoe toward that harlot’s room.

P205.L07

دم در که رسیدم اطاق در تاریکی غلیظی غرق شده بود.

When I reached the doorway, the room was immersed in thick darkness.

P207.L01

من آهسته در تاریکی وارد اطاق شدم، عبا و شال گردنم را برداشتم، لخت شدم،

I slowly entered the room in darkness, took off my cloak and scarf, and undressed,

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