Storia do Mogor 211.3.2

211.3.2

His children were just as great hypocrites as he was, and all to propitiate their grandfather. For in secret they led the same life as their father. One day, as it happened, one of the spies reported to the king that he had seen a bottle of wine being taken into the house of Sultan Mu'izz-ud-dln. It was one that he had sent to me for. Upon this the old fellow made a long discourse to Shah 'Alam and Sultan Mu'izz-ud-dln. The latter said as his excuse that the wine was for some medicine to be given to a sick lady; while Shah 'Alam made it appear that he had no part in the matter. In order better to persuade and satisfy the king, he caused the uterine brother of his son to be ejected from his palace as the man who had sent the wine ; while I was thereby saved from the penalty which would otherwise have fallen on me had they known that the wine came from me.