Note 10 — Chapter IX · The Weighing of the Emperor.

“She with the veil thrown back, and a servant holding a fan of peacock feathers?” asked Parviz. “Certainly I know her, and I wonder that you do not; however, of late she has shown herself but seldom. She is”—and here Parviz named a name which gave our friend such a shock as never before in his whole life he had experienced; and he felt as if, standing on the brink of a precipice amongst his northern mountains, he had been seized with a sudden dizziness and fallen into the abyss beneath. “She is,” said Parviz, “a lady of whom, at any rate, you must have heard—Gulbadan,10 Faizi’s wife.”