The favourite of one day may be in disgrace, and ordered to execution, the next.

You will soon feel that it is as if you were in a real tiger's den, and that the animal may at any moment spring upon you.
"Take with you the clothes you now wear, and those in which you came, so that at any moment, if you see a storm gathering, you can slip on a disguise, and leave the Palace unobserved.

In that case hasten here, and you can then dress yourselves as merchants." "The worst of it is, Pertaub, that our faces will soon become known to so many in the Palace that they would be recognised, whatever our dress." "A little paint, and some false hair, and a somewhat darker stain to your skin, would alter you so that those who know you best would pass you without suspicion.

I trust that no such misfortune will befall, but I will keep everything in readiness to effect a transformation, should it be required.
"Now I will go out at once, to get the clothes." In two hours he returned, followed by a boy carrying the goods he had purchased; and in a few minutes, Dick and his companion were arrayed in Court dresses.

The turbans were pure white, and the tunic was of dark, rich stuff, thickly woven with gold thread.