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A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II

CHAPTER III
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The King relented, and every remedy was tried, but in vain.

The King watched over her agonies till she was about to expire, when he fled in a frantic state and took refuge in the apartments of the race-stand, about three miles from the palace, till the funeral ceremonies were over.

It is said, that in her anxiety to give birth to an heir to the throne, she got the husband, from whom she had been divorced, smuggled into her apartments in the palace in a female dress more than once; and that this was reported to the King, and became the real cause of the dispute.
The Mogulanee attendant, who had accumulated twenty lacs of rupees, was seized and commanded to disgorge.

She offered five lacs to Court favourites on condition that they saw her safely over the river Ganges into British territory.

The most grave of them were commissioned to wait upon his Majesty, and entreat him most earnestly to banish her forthwith from his territories, as she was known, in the first place, to be one of the most _potent sorceresses_ in India; and, in the next, to have been exceedingly attached to her late mistress: that they had strong grounds to believe that it was her intention to send his Majesty's spirit after hers, that they might be united in the next world us they had been in this.


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