When all had been prepared for this last ceremony, the Rajah of Rewa pleaded the heat of the weather, and his son would not come to complete it, and take away his bride.

Hunmunt Sing collected one hundred _resolute Brahmins_, and proceeded with them to Rewa, where they sat _dhurna_ at the Rajah's door, without tasting food, and declared that they would all die there unless the marriage were completed.
The Rajah did all he could, or could make his people do, to get rid of them; but at last, afraid that some of the Brahmins would really die, he consented that his son should go and fetch his bride, if Hunmunt Sing would pay down twenty-five thousand rupees more, to defray the cost of the procession, in addition to the seventy-five thousand.

He did so, and his daughter was taken off in due form.

He has another daughter to dispose of in the same way.

The Rewa Rajah has thus taken five or six wives for his son, from families a shade lower in caste; but the whole that he has got with them will not be enough to pay one of the Rajpoot families, a shade higher in caste than he is, in Rajpootana, to take one daughter from him.