_ 211 _ My, Lord, I earnestly desire that time, allow me to serve Your Lordship as your trust me to do. I hope that Our Lord will do me that favour. I intend to serve Your Lordship is this land so truly that my satisfaction will be so great as to be uncomfortable to any other. To date, I have no precise information on which to bases a report to Your Lordship about affairs in this land. Therefore I am not writing about them. For the moment all I dare bay is that there are unresolved disputes. When I see how they have been terminated I shall inform Your Lordship. As Your Lordship already …, I and that Rais Sharaf’s arrival here has been badly received. I am notice all surprised at this because there is something of everything in the world and men are capable for anything. Only time will reveal the truth, as it appears to have done already, Rais Sharaf’s wife does not love him, his sons detest him, his relations curse him with the ills which accompany old age and poverty. For this reason, I understand that the man is neither old noir poor, or he would not be so despised and detested. According to rumors here, the Guazil in high esteem. They say this is all the greater because of the negative feelings towards Rais Sharaf. I do not know now true this
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