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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: eould do Hothing for any suitor for justice; nor could he bar access to the Huzoor. How then could he make money I My sapient friend, said Suntokhea, I was not aware that you were so green. We have scores of ways of ranking money, even when our masters are vigilant and cautious, and vainly imagine that because, forsooth, they take the trouble to do the, work themselves, no person will give fees. I will describe some few of the processes by which w$ receive money. A great man's Mooktyar-forKarinda is sent by his master to wait on the Huzoor; he is admitted into the entrance hall, where he remains unnoticed for a couple of hours. To all his prayers to give intimation to the Huzoor of his presence, a deaf ear is turned; until fairly exhausted, the Karinda offers me a rupee; this is spurned, and I ask him whether he thinks I could possibly take one rupee ? the poor man, driven to desperation, offers me five rupees. On this I pocket the affront, put on my sweetest smil?, declare that he is a perfect ttsAror/, J and intimate to my master, that such an one craves an interview. Five rupees you will eay is but a small morsel. I allow it; but then these delicate bits come frequently. Literally, the presence. i Attorney or representative. I Neb. Again, every rich native gentleman, -who is in the habit of visiting the Saheban Aleeshan fees us orderlies on every festival. Suppose my gentleman becomes a non-conformist to our rules, or is in any way inclined to be bumptious, he finds that in the next visit he pays the Huzoor, his suwareef remains unnoticed in the compound; or if he enters the entrance room, no one will so much as give him a chair to sit upon; if he becomes impatient we recommend his going away as the Huzoor is busy, and has positively prohibited intrusi...
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