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At Bandakui, where lives one of Us, I thought to slip the scent by changing my face, and so made me a Mahratta. Then I came to Agra, and would have turned back to Chitor to recover the letter. So sure I was I had slipped them. I wished the credit of it all. Kim nodded. He understood that feeling well.
So, under promises that follow, I bid thee to a feast at my poor house of Chitor, and thou shalt see that beauty reflected in a mirror, and so seeing, depart in peace from the house of a friend." This being writ by the Twice-Born, the Brahman, did the Rana sign with bitter rage in his heart. And the days passed.
From the Tower of Fame we made our way to the other great landmark of Chitor the Tower of Victory.
Alla-o-din was, however, not to be caught napping, and, being prepared for all contingencies, a fierce combat took place, and the warriors of Chitor were hard put to it to stand their ground until Bheemsi had escaped to the stronghold on a fleet horse. Then the devoted remnant retreated, pursued to the very gates by their foes. The flower of Chitor had perished, but they had achieved their object.
"She commanded: 'Say this to the Rana: "In Chitor is My altar; in Chitor is thy throne. If thou wouldest save either, send forth twelve crowned Kings of Chitor to die." As he said this, the Rana, fore-spent with fighting, entered and heard the Divine word. Now there were twelve princes of the Rajput blood, and the youngest was the son of Padmini.
One cannot help being glad that the prosaic steam-engine, crowned with foul smoke and heralded by ear-piercing whistles, has not been allowed to trespass in Udaipur, wherein no discordant note is struck by train line or factory chimney, and where everything and every one is as when the city was newly built on the final abandonment of Chitor, the ancient capital of Mewar.
"It's true. I have herself. How could you know?" Five minutes later, he was sitting beside his grandfather on the deep divan, telling him all. Before setting out, he would not have believed it possible. But instinctively he knew himself in touch with a quality of love that matched his own; and the mere telling revived the marvel, the thrill of that strange and beautiful experience at Chitor....
Have ready for release the Rana of Chitor, for this night I come with my ladies, the prize of the conqueror." When the sun sank, a great procession with torches descended the steep way of Chitor seven hundred litters, and in the first was borne the Queen, and all her women followed. All the streets were thronged with women, weeping and beating their breasts.
When we learn that Akbar invariably prayed at the grave of his father in Delhi before starting upon any important undertaking, or that during the siege of Chitor he made a vow to make a pilgrimage to a shrine in Ajmir after the fall of the fortress, and that after Chitor was in his power he performed this journey in the simplest pilgrim garb, tramping barefooted over the glowing sand, it is impossible for us to look upon Akbar as irreligious.
Passing and examining en route many elaborately-carved temples, whose domes rose amid the strangling masses of desert tree and shrub, we came to the base of the red tower, whose shaft, four-square and in perfect preservation, has, with its more venerable brother of Fame, watched for so many centuries over the fallen fortress of Chitor.
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