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148 time, by a ervant holding an umbrella over his head to hade him from the un, and one or two torch bearers illuming the way, before him by night.

Every man of rank has a derawan or door—keeper at his gate, to announce the arrival of a vitant, whoe name he cries out in a vociferous tone, which is heard in the gentleman's manion, and repeated by a ervant at the foot of the grand tair-cae leading to his apartment: pages potted in different ituation on the tairs, uher the found to each other; till, at lat, it reaches the jemidar or principal page, at the drawing-room door, who conveys it, with great formality,