ACT ONE
passes
along ignoring the crowd,
his servants oIIow him,
carrying baskets laden with
purchases.
Then appear
some exhausted beggars,half-naked
and covered with
dust, evidently justarrived from
some famine area. At
one shop. Kashmir and other shawls and materiaIsare
. brought
out and shown
to customers.
Opposiretheteashop, asnake-charmer seats imselfandisatoncesurroundedbyacuriouscrowd. Donkeyspass by, laden with baskets. Women walkalong, somewearing the ‘chuddar’ and others with unveiled faces.A humpbacked old woman stops near the fakir and.withadevoutair,putsmoneyintothecoconutalmsbowlstanding near him. Shetouchestheskin on which he isseatedand goesaway: pressingher hands o her forehead
I
and’eyes. A wedding procession
moves
by:
in
front are
t
g&ly dressed children, behind them buffoons.
musicians
and drumbeaters. The towncrier
passes, houtingat thetop ofhis voice. From an alley is heard the din cfthecopper-smith's hammers. Everywhere there is noise,
sound, movement, laughter. scolding, prayers, bargaining-life
bubbling over.
Two men separate themselves f&m the crowd.Bot5are richly dressed.One
ofthem* GafarJsahandsome.
well-built, wealthy Parsi about thirty x thirty-five years
ofage,
clean
shavenexceptforasmallbIac~mous~che.
and close-cut hair. He wears a light yellow silk coat
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