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They rested that night in mutual embrace until dawn: then the King went forth to his Darbar; the Wazirs and troops came in and the audience hall was crowded; so the King gave orders and judged and appointed and deposed and bade and forbade the rest of that day, when the court broke up, and King Shahryar entered his palace, When it was the Sixth Night,
He founded his remonstrances on a short letter which he had received from the Governor-General, and upon circumstances which passed in the presence of Sindhia, at Shah Alam's Darbar, as Major Brown was taking his leave. "The effects which Mr.
Yasmini announced in a rising, ringing voice. "My darbar, for I summoned it! Did I invite any man to speak?" There was silence, as a whipped unwilling pack is silent. "Speak, thou, Kurram Khan!" she said. "Knowing the custom having heard the order to throw that trophy to them why act otherwise? Explain!" Nothing in the wide world could be fairer!
She betrayed a flash of temper like a trapped she-tiger's, but followed it instantly with her loveliest smile. Like to like, however, the crowd saw the flash of temper and took its cue from that. "Slay him!" yelled a lone voice, that was greeted an approving murmur. "Slay him!" advised the roof in a whisper, in one of its phonetic tricks. "This is a darbar!"
The fancied approach of a chuprasi, the 'corrupt lictor' of India, who attends at every darbar, will however cause a sudden stampede; but after a time these become less and less frequent, the wild beasts, as it were, becoming tamer. Once the ice is broken, the only difficulties are, first, to understand your visitors, and secondly, to get them to go away.
There have been many cases of Santals marrying bonga girls. Not of course with formal marriage ceremonies but the marriage which results from merely living together. In Darbar village near Silingi there are two men who married bonga. One of them was very fond of playing on the flute and his playing attracted a bonga girl who came to him looking like a human girl, while he was tending buffaloes.
In the same Darbar, the Begam was publicly thanked for her services, and proclaimed the Emperor's daughter, under the title of Zeb-un-Nissa "Ornament of her sex." The expedition, however, exhausted itself in this small triumph.
The next morning the Brahmani took the paper, and while she was going along the road to the darbar reading it, the king's son met her, and asked what she was reading, whereupon she replied that she held in her hands a paper containing certain bits of advice, for which she wanted a lac of rupees.
"I had in all three interviews with him," he wrote, "the last in Darbar before seven, when he repeated his assurances to me, on the word of a soldier, that no harm should come to us; and, indeed, I believe his orders were only general that we for that night should be secured, and that what followed was the result of revenge and resentment in the breasts of the lower jemidars to whose custody we were delivered for the number of their order killed during the siege."
The next morning the Brahmani took the paper, and while she was going along the road to the darbar reading it, the king's son met her, and asked what she was reading, whereupon she replied that she held in her hands a paper containing certain bits of advice, for which she wanted a lac of rupees.
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