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49<br />
A VIZIER’S DAUGHTER – A TALE OF THE HAZARA WAR<br />
CHAPTER X<br />
A MOCK ENGAGEMENT<br />
THE old lady returned from her missio n with ver y mixed feelings. She<br />
had been successful, but she was not altogether pleased with her<br />
success.<br />
“That is not a house to send Gul Begum to,” she said. “Those people<br />
are not of our class at all. The y have made their money by trading, and<br />
don’t know how to live.”<br />
“Tut, mother,” her son-in-law answered. “From many an outsider’s<br />
point of view they have a better house than we have. We are<br />
comfortable enough, and I would not change my home for any man’s,<br />
but, after all, what is it? There are those who would say I was but a<br />
well-fitted cave. Now, Mohamed Jan has a house all properly built and<br />
arranged. He is no man’s servant, and neither was his father before<br />
him.”<br />
“You will, of course, do as you please,” the old lady replied mildly. It<br />
was not her place to raise objections.<br />
“I would not give Gul Begum in marriage to Mohamed Jan,” Ghulam<br />
Hossain continued conciliatingly. “She is only going there to be out of<br />
danger during a time of difficult y, and the man is to be well rewarded<br />
for his trouble. What did he think of then gun? Did he seem satisfied?”
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