Siyar al-mutaʾakhkhirin 19.4.7

19.4.7

who never get up every morning, without making three profound bows to his very jack ass? How then could I be daring enough after that, to fall out with the rider himself? After that small digression, for which we hope the readers' connivance, it is proper to revert to the affairs of Azim-abad, and to see how Ram-narain availed himself of the letter, he had obtained at the expense of so much art, and so much good luck. One day Mir-djaafer-qhan, after having much amused himself with the songs and dances of the actresses of that city, conferred the government of the province on his own elder brother, Mir-cazem-qhan; and at the same time he required Ram-narain, to render a full account of the management of the revenue for so many years past. Ram-narain, who had attached himself to the English, on purpose to parry such a stroke, did not fail to complain to Colonel Clive. The Colonel sent a message to the Navvab, to dissuade him from such a design. The message displeased that Prince, who in conversing with the Colonel's agent and envoy, grew warm, and expressed himself in these very words: "What does mean, my Lord! Shall I leave such "a Government in the hands of a Ram-narain, and behold my "own brother without employment? What for, pray? And "for whom?" The Colonel sent word in answer, "that it was "for fear of such contingencies as these that he, on the Navvab's "desiring to be accompanied by the English, in his expedition "to Azim-abad, had objected to his being of the party;