Siyar al-mutaʾakhkhirin 19.4.9

19.4.9

These two men who were closely linked together in this business, took care to answer in such a manner, as to confound the old man totally. They observed, "that they had brought that minute to him, and "offered it to his perusal; that he had ordered the contents "to be recited to him, had given his consent, and had requested "that of the Colonel's. They added, that it was not strange at all, "that those contents should have slipped out of his memory, in "the variety of businessess, and avocations that crowded upon "his Princely mind." Mir-djaafer, feeling he was in the wrong, found he had no other party to take, but that of abiding by the Colonel's pleasure, with respect to Ram-narain. He did more; for after having so bluntly published his intention to dispossess the latter, he found it convenient to caress him, and, at the same time, to promise some other preferment to his disappointed brother, whom he desired to quit Azim-abad, in order to live with him at his Court.