Siyar al-mutaʾakhkhirin 17.7.4

17.7.4

not on a hunting party, as formerly, but to feast my eyes for the last time with the sight of your person, which is now become my only remaining capital after all the heavy losses, and the ruinous bankruptcies I have suffered; and if I am not to live so long, then hold me excused; and he added these verses of his own, at the bottom of the letter: "If we remain alive, we shall sew up again "Our garment torn by the thorns of sorrow and absence; "And if we are to die, then accept our excuses. "It would be a pity indeed, that our desire should be disappointed." Nevazish-mahmed-qhan's demise was followed by that of his brother, Sayd-ahmed-qhan, who himself became a traveller in the regions of eternity. That unhappy event took place in this manner: About two months after the demise of his elder brother, he by degrees commenced feeling an acute pain in his head, at a place that became prominent of itself; and he suffered and bemoaned, but otherwise was so healthy, that it never came into any man's mind that he would die of it. I, the poor man, apprehended so little danger from it, that I obtained leave to repair, to Muxad-abad for condoling with my mother, who was inconsolable of Nevazish-mahmed-qhan's death.