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Rh to thee: to whom could we turn our prayers so long, when we could not approach thy august presence?

Your grievances will all be redressed.

It won't do to lag behind, boys—the King will lose sight of us if we get mixed up with the mob.

See there—look what that fool Narottam is doing! He has elbowed his way through all of us and is now sedulously fanning the King with a palm leaf!

Indeed! Well, well, the sheer audacity of the man takes one's breath away.