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I have been trying to persuade him to write it. He says, "If I were to write it, you would scarcely believe it; it would appear fiction." He is gone to the sick begam. How I long for another tête à tête, in the hope of learning his private history!
He must have been, and is, very handsome; such a high caste man! How he came to marry the begam I know not. What a romance his love must have been! I wish I had his portrait, just as he now appears, so dignified and interesting. His partiality flatters me greatly.
