href="@public@vhost@g@gutenberg@html@files@21331@[email protected]#link2HCH0056" class="pginternal" tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">CHAPTER LVI — Showing how the ambition of the mollah Nadân involves both him and his disciples in ruin.
CHAPTER LVII — Hajji Baba meets with an extraordinary adventure in the bath, which miraculously saves him from the horrors of despair.
CHAPTER LVIII — Of the consequences of the adventure, which threaten danger, but end in apparent good fortune.
CHAPTER LIX — Hajji Baba does not shine in honesty—The life and adventures of the mollah Nadân
CHAPTER LX — Hajji and the mollah make plans suited to their critical situation, showing that no confidence can exist between rogues.
CHAPTER LXI — The punishment due to Hajji Baba falls upon Nadân, which makes the former a staunch predestinarian.
CHAPTER LXII — Hajji Baba hears an extraordinary sequel to his adventure in the bath, and feels all the alarms of guilt.
CHAPTER LXIII — He is discovered and seized, but his good stars again befriend and set him free.
CHAPTER LXIV — He reaches Bagdad, meets his first master, and turns his views to commerce.
CHAPTER LXV — He purchases pipe-sticks, and inspires a hopeless passion in the breast of his old master’s daughter.
CHAPTER LXVI — He becomes a merchant, leaves Bagdad, and accompanies a caravan to Constantinople.
CHAPTER LXVII — Hajji Baba makes a conquest of the widow of an emir, which at first alarms, but afterwards elates him.
CHAPTER LXVIII — He obtains an interview with the fair Shekerleb, makes a settlement upon her, and becomes her husband.
CHAPTER LXIX — From a vender of pipe-sticks he becomes a rich Aga, but feels all the inconvenience of supporting a false character.
CHAPTER LXX — His desire to excite envy lays the foundation of his disgrace—He quarrels with his wife.
CHAPTER LXXI — He is discovered to be an impostor, loses his wife, and the wide world is again before him.
CHAPTER LXXII — An incident in the street diverts his despair—He seeks consolation in the advice of old Osman.
CHAPTER LXXIII — In endeavouring to gain satisfaction from his enemies he acquires a friend—Some account of Mirza Firouz.
CHAPTER LXXIV — He becomes useful to an ambassador, who makes him a partaker of his confidence.
CHAPTER LXXV — Of his first essays in public life, and of the use he was to his employer.
CHAPTER LXXVI — Hajji Baba writes the history of Europe and with his ambassador returns to Persia.
CHAPTER LXXVII — The ceremony of receiving a Frank ambassador at the court is described.
CHAPTER LXXVIII — Hajji is noticed by the grand vizier, and is the means of gratifying that minister’s favourite passion.
CHAPTER LXXIX — Of the manner in which he turned his influence to use, and how he was again noticed by the vizier.
CHAPTER LXXX — The conclusion—Misfortune seems to take leave of Hajji Baba, who returns to his native city a greater man than when he first left.
FOOTNOTES.
ILLUSTRATIONS
Hajji Shaves the Camel-driver. 1.jpg
The Chaoûsh Tells What he Will Do when He Meets The Robbers. 2.jpg
Hajji’s Master and the Great Turcoman. 3.jpg
