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 | | The young minister put no more questions, "for," quoth he to himself, "when the prince wants my counsel, he will apply for it." In this point he had borrowed wisdom from his father, who held in peculiar horror the giving of unasked- for advice. |
 | | You may imagine, Raja Vikram, that with a few years of this head work, the minister's son became a very crafty young person. |
 | | And therefore --excuse the digression, Raja Vikram --he married an old maid, tall, thin, yellow, strictly proper, cold-mannered, a conversationist, and who prided herself upon spirituality. |
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