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The Broken Road

CHAPTER XXVI
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Watch any who approach you, and should one spit, I beseech your Excellency to pay no heed." The huge paved square, indeed, was thronged like a bazaar.

Along the wall on the left hand booths were erected, where food and sweetmeats were being sold.

Stone tombs dotted the enclosure; and amongst them men walked up and down, shouting and talking.

Here and there big mango and peepul trees threw a welcome shade.
The Pathan led Linforth to the right between the Chisti's tomb and the raised marble court surrounded by its marble balustrade in front of the long mosque of Shah Jehan.

Behind the tomb there were more trees, and the shrine of a dancing saint, before which dancers from Chitral were moving in and out with quick and flying steps.


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