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The vizer, who did not expect this proposal, was troubled at it; and, instead of accepting it joyfully, which another in his place would certainly have done, he answered the sultan, May it please your majesty, I am not worthy of the honour you confer upon me, and I most humbly beseech you to pardon me if I do not agree to your request.
I might say: 'Off with his head! if one of my subjects displeased me, and he would be guillotined before you could wink an eye." "How horrid!" said Grace, the shy. "I never could feel that way." "It would never do for Elizabeth to be a grand vizer, or sultan, or satrap," Nan remarked laughingly. "Who wants to be a 'shawl-strap'? Not I!" cried Bess, gaily.
When he had told her, with tears in his eyes, how his son had refused to comply a second time, and that nevertheless, through the advice of his grand vizer, he was induced to wait yet a longer time for his compliance, he said, Madam, I know he will hearken more to you than me, therefore I desire you would take your time to speak to him seriously of the matter, and to let him know that, if he persists much longer in his obstinacy, he will oblige me to have recourse to extremities that may not be pleasing to him, and which may give him cause to repent of having disobeyed me.
He has already beheld her, and seen the ladies of the haram, so that nothing can save your honour but his union with the princess." The sultan approved the advice of his vizer, the proclamation was issued, and the crier proceeded through several streets, till at length he reached the square of the great mosque.
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