Storia do Mogor 265.11.5

265.11.5

This matter was not such a secret that it did not come to the prince's ears, and he was annoyed, saying he could not have supposed that such people could be so ignorant, and the higher he had thought of them the more aggrieved he felt. To restore my honour, he ordered one of the principal officials of his court, Mir Muhammad Sadiq, to send for the ambassador to his tent with all his retinue, and apply a remedy for the above false statement. With me standing near him and the others round him, he asked me if I had received the above-mentioned money. I replied in the affirmative. Then in a loud voice, with his hand raised, he said it had been heard that there was someone rash enough to assert that Manuchy had stolen the said money. If he could only find out who were these slanderers, he would unfailingly cram their mouths full (be it said with all respect) ... of dirt. Most of them hung their heads, and said not a word ; they had imagined they were sent for to receive some present.