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2G2 JOURNAL OF A RESIDENCE
delay. This concession seemed to please hiin,
and he promised that he should attend at his
house early the next morning. He was also
pleased to promise, I should have a copy of the
letter that had been brought from Bengal, and
that he would also deliver up the bearer to me
to do as I pleased with him. These people
seem to have no idea of the turpitude of lying.
Yesterday he positively told me, he had torn the
letter without reading it; this, however, I knew
to be false, as a servant of mine had actually
obtained the perusal of the original; but this was
not a time to take notice of such disgraceful con-
tradictions. After about two hours' conversation
on various topics, he ordered a bed to be placed
for me in his outer hall of audience, telling me
I should be more at my ease there, as it was
a long time to dinner, or that I might take a
walk to view the fort, #-c. Willing to humour
him, I had determined to pass the day in his
house; however, finding the outer hall a common
rendezvous for all comers, I availed myself of
the opportunity of his calling me to him again
in the inner room, to say that I would take a
ride, and would return before dinner. On leaving
him, I therefore returned home. At half-past
three I returned with Mr. Burnett, fyc, to the
whoonghee's house: when I arrived I was shewn
into the outer hall, and told, that his excellency
delay. This concession seemed to please hiin,
and he promised that he should attend at his
house early the next morning. He was also
pleased to promise, I should have a copy of the
letter that had been brought from Bengal, and
that he would also deliver up the bearer to me
to do as I pleased with him. These people
seem to have no idea of the turpitude of lying.
Yesterday he positively told me, he had torn the
letter without reading it; this, however, I knew
to be false, as a servant of mine had actually
obtained the perusal of the original; but this was
not a time to take notice of such disgraceful con-
tradictions. After about two hours' conversation
on various topics, he ordered a bed to be placed
for me in his outer hall of audience, telling me
I should be more at my ease there, as it was
a long time to dinner, or that I might take a
walk to view the fort, #-c. Willing to humour
him, I had determined to pass the day in his
house; however, finding the outer hall a common
rendezvous for all comers, I availed myself of
the opportunity of his calling me to him again
in the inner room, to say that I would take a
ride, and would return before dinner. On leaving
him, I therefore returned home. At half-past
three I returned with Mr. Burnett, fyc, to the
whoonghee's house: when I arrived I was shewn
into the outer hall, and told, that his excellency