{"book":"adl0973","page":207,"text":"The Marshal wanted to speak but for a long\ntime he was given no opportunity to do so.\nتخفیف دادن At last when the enthusiasm abated a little\nthe Marshal stood up. To an audience that\nwas respectfully hushed, he addressed these\nwords, \"Gentlemen,\" he said, \"my object\nwas only to free you from the cruel hold of\nthe Bacha and to put an end to the Reign\nof Terror, and this by the grace of God and\nby your co-operation has been achieved.\nNow, I hope, you will kindly permit me to\nretire and take rest. It is for you now to\nchoose a king. Let your choice fall on\nsome worthy person who is in your opinion\nfit for this task. As for myself, to tell you\nthe truth, I am not in a position, nor am I\nسخت willing, to take up this onerous duty. Long\nere this I made my aims and objects clear to\nyou.\" On this the chiefs were all the more\nپر غوغا clamorous in their demand. All of them\nwith one voice declared that no one was\nworthier to be their king; and that his\nrefusal would plunge the country into worse\ntroubles. In the name of the love and\nhonour of the country, that was so dear to\nhim, they requested the Marshal to accept.\n\n164","chars":1127,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0973/00207.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":315,"title":"Progressive Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0973/207","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0973/canvas/207","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/books/adl0973/","source_pdf":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/pdf/adl0973_download.pdf","rights":{"image":{"statement":"Public domain. NYU states: \"All works presented on this website are, unless otherwise indicated, in the public domain. The images available on this website may be freely reproduced, distributed and transmitted by anyone for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial.\"","uri":"http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/","holder":"New York University Libraries","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/about.html","delivery":"Images are served from a copy mirrored by this project, not from NYU's servers, under the reproduction terms above.","endorsement":"This is an independent project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or reviewed by New York University."},"text":{"statement":"Machine-generated transcription, dedicated to the public domain under CC0 1.0. No warranty of accuracy: see the provenance block on every page.","uri":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/","holder":"Steps Ventures"}},"provenance":{"text_produced_by":"gemini-3.1-pro-preview","thinking_level":"low","read_completed":"2026-08-09","per_page_confidence":null,"per_page_confidence_note":"Not recorded during the corpus run. No calibrated per-page score exists, and none is estimated here.","human_reviewed":false,"accuracy_context":"Roughly two thirds of characters agree with a modern printed edition of the same text. Much of the disagreement is editorial, not misreading. Treat the transcription as a finding aid and read the page image before quoting.","primary_source":"The page image. The text is an index into it."}}