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Rh Kopal-Kundala and her husband. So she replied to the question of her mistress, "What does it signify whether a beggarly Brahman be handsome or ugly?"

Moti understood her companion's thoughts, and said with a laugh, "Suppose the beggarly Brahman becomes a noble, then will he be a handsome man or not?"

Pes. What do you mean?

Moti. Why, don't you know that the Begum has promised that, if Khasru be made king, my husband is to be a noble?

Pes. That I know, but why should your farmer husband be noble?

Moti. What other husband have I?

Pes. He who will be.

Moti said with a smile, "Two husbands for a chaste woman like me, that is very wrong. Who is that over there?"

Pesmon knew the man pointed out by Moti. He was a resident of Agra, and one of Khan Azim' s followers. Both got anxious. Pesmon called him, and the man came, and, making an obeisance to Lutufonissa, put a