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whom I have mentioned) seized him by the girdle, & took him by the hair, saying he would not suffer him to go to Ramlochun’s but several people came out from an alley, in which Ramlochun’s house is (I cannot say whose people they were) and they carried me & Gurdiyal’s to Ramlochan’s & threw me down in the courtyard of Ramlochun’s house. As soon as I went in the courtyard, I let Gurdiyal go: they first threw me down & then dragged me into the hall, when I was there the munshi came out of an inner apartment & asked who I was. They answered this is the fellow “the Tannadar of the Great Bazar”; 7 they gave me some thumps on the head. I had been sitting before the munshi came in, but stood up, when he entered.