Un usage d'Inde, 19th century. Comment on the Hindu custom of suttee: My dear friend, I have just paid you the sincerest prince is good and dead, and as the longest-serving officer in the palace, you have been accorded the honour of escorting his wives onto the bonfire - otherwise you will burn with them!

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