Storia do Mogor 354.2.5

354.2.5

But the princess in a graceful way made excuses, just exactly as ladies know how to do when they are intent on having their own way. Finally, being forced into consenting to explain her ill-humour, she said it all sprang from the thought that his Highness did not love her to the extent he asserted ; because, if his love were really such, he would not have neglected to entertain at court, and take into his service, the physician Manuchi, a man who knew her constitution, and had nursed her as a little child in his arms. Taking her by the hand, to these words the prince replied that when morning came he would send in search of me, and pledged his word of honour that he would do so. Women can do much, and demand a good deal as soon as they perceive that they are held in estimation. On this occasion that was how the princess acted ; therefore she replied to the prince that that very moment he must write an order to the principal eunuch, Nãzir Daulat, directing him to send off a troop of soldiers, who at the time were on guard, to trace me [108] out. Prince Shãh 'Alam gave way to the wishes of the princess, and the soldiers, rushing about all the night, made a fruitless search for me.