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Magnificent still a hall covered with a acrpets an outer room for placing the baggage in a chamber for perfumes another for ablution another for [illeg.] another for [Sherbed?] and another for wine and says he “you shall answer with your office that everything be ready that can possibly be asked for even to the milk of a bird and the soul of a man.” The steward immediately went and issued the strongest injunctions to all the servants to exert themselves and every person applied himself [assiduously?] to his own business. The Shah then desired Meelch Mahommed to bear his respects to Gheti Afroz and tell her “Though it be presumptuous in a mortal to pretend to entertain her who possesses whatever God has created. Yet my desire of her society is so great I cannot refrain from intreating her to illumine with the rays of her beauty. My [paltry?] [attage?] though it should only be for a single hour. The princess will pardon the presumption of her goodness for once to take a single look at our habitation.[”?] Melech Mahommed immediately proceeded to the palace of