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Exhausted as he was, he found voice to express his sense of the outrage in indignant iteration. "Am I a beast? Am I an unbelieving dog? O son of Jaffur Khan, how hast thou fallen!" I felt so shocked and insulted that I went at once, and without ceremony, to the Kralahome, and complained.
Anna Harriette Leonowens - The English Governess at the Siamese Court: Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok

But I felt the glow of his presence and heard the rustle of his pinions, as once more he beat the golden palms and cried, 'Behold, O son of Jaffur Khan! behold the spot where lie the treasures of that haughty Kafir chief! I arose, and immediately the angel flashed from my sight; and as I gazed there appeared a luminous golden hen with six golden chickens, which pecked at bits of blazing coal that, as they cooled, became nuggets of pure gold.
Anna Harriette Leonowens - The English Governess at the Siamese Court: Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok
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