He wrote out a receipt for me, and also the discharge Rashid required.

Hasan Agha stamped both documents with an official seal, and handed them to me, who gave him in exchange the money.
'Bismillah!' he exclaimed.

'I call all here to witness that Rashid, the son of Ali, called the Fair, is free henceforth to go what way he chooses.' To me he said: 'Rashid is a good lad, and you will find him useful.
The chief fault I have found in him is this: that, when obeying orders, he is apt to think, and so invent a method of his own, not always good.

Also, he is too susceptible to female charms, a failing which has placed him in some strange positions.' The last remark evoked much laughter, relating, evidently to some standing joke unknown to me.

Rashid looked rather sheepish.