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The note to Lord Tremlyn enclosed sixteen cards printed in gold letters, / one for each member of the company, and they were passed around to them. / They were to the effect that Perbut Lalleejee would celebrate the marriage / of his son that evening, and the favor of the recipient's attendance was / requested to a Grand Nautch at nine o'clock. The gentleman who sent out / these cards was one of the wealthiest of the Parsee community, with whom / the viscount was intimately acquainted, and he strongly recommended the / Americans to attend.
The Parsees kept their religious affairs to themselves, and the party were / not to "assist" at the ceremony, which would have been an extra inducement / to attend. Promptly at the hour named the carriages set the tourists and / their volunteer guides down at the magnificent mansion of the father of the / young man who was to enter the marriage state that evening.