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Updated: April 30, 2025
He seemed himself to be conscious of the burlesque attaching to his office, at least he behaved very absurdly in it, and many a stroke fell rather in jest than in earnest. The drollery of the driver did not, however, enliven the dejected countenances of his flock. In the prayer-house, which at first, in my simplicity, I had taken for a school, no Missionary was present.
Far from daunting the spirit of their Captive, far from inducing Him to recant or abandon His mission, that gathering was productive of no other result than the decision, arrived at after considerable argument and discussion, to inflict the bastinado on Him, at the hands, and in the prayer-house of the heartless and avaricious Mírzá ‘Alí-Aṣghar, the Shaykhu’l-Islám of that city.
After feasting with shining candles, to be in the darkness of a prayer-house. I was once living with kings, drinking mead and wine; to-day I am drinking whey-water among withered old women. There are three floods that come up to the dun of Ard-Ruide: a flood of fighting-men, a flood of horses, a flood of the hounds of Lugaidh's son.
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