shafrass

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Then it passed by conquest into the possession of Nadir the Shah of Persia. In 1747 he was assassinated, and all the crown-jewels slipped out of the dead man's fingers, a common incident to mortality. Mr. Shafrass counted out fifty thousand piastres for the lot; and the chief folded up his robes and silently departed.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 41, March, 1861