'The dynasty of the Kajars translated from the original Persian manuscript presented by His Majesty Faty Aly Shah to Sir Harford Jones Brydges ... to which is prefixed a succinct account of the history of Persia previous to that period illustarted with plates and a map of Western Persia' [‎133] (154/684)

PRELIMINARY MATTER.
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As soon as we were by ourselves, Mirza Bazurg
said to me : f< I am sure I shall by and bye hear, from
" my uncle, that the king is greatly pleased with the
" manner in which you have conducted yourself
" to-day." And the old jeweller laid hold of my hand,
and, by way of compliment, said: " My dear sir, if I
" had not known to the contrary, I should have
" thought you had been bred up in Persia." At
parting, the old jeweller asked me to sup with him ;
which, after the compliment he had paid me, 1
could not very well refuse to do. I saw now enough,
however, of the business, to perceive, if it was to pro
ceed further, it would require all the caution I was
master of to conduct it to a successful issue.
In the evening I saw Mirza Husain, who con
firmed to me what Mirza Bazurg had predicted in
the morning; adding, that his majesty had said, " If
"they were to treat for the diamonds with aFringee,
" they could not find a better Fringee than myself."
I told the Mirza where I was invited to supper: he
answered, he knew it before; it was by the king's
order; and that he should desire my Mehmandar to
sup with him, that he might not be in my way.
At the hour appointed, I repaired to Hajy Eu-
soof's house; which, like most of the other houses of
merchants of his class, made externally but a shabby
appearance, and was entered by a narrow, low door,
and through consecutive passages, all very narrow
and very mean. After passing through a small anti-
chamber, which is used by the servants to re-dress
the caleans, and to receive the slippers of the
guests, when taken off, I entered the salle a manger,
where I found Hajy Eusoof, and his nephew, and