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The two flunkeys in livery, as had been planned beforehand, carried off in state the string of gold mohurs, the gold salver, the old ancestral shawl, the silver scent-sprinkler, and the otto-of-roses filigree box; they placed them ceremoniously in the carriage. Kailas Babu regarded this as the usual habit of Chota Lard Sahibs. I was watching all the while from the next room.
Still what I kept with me must have been worth thirty or forty thousand. I took my jewel-box to the Bara Rani's room and opened it out before her, saying: "I leave these with you, sister. They will keep you quite safe from all worry." The Bara Rani made a gesture of mock despair. "You positively astound me, Chota Rani!" she said.
He meant that "Chota" Cunnigan should have a proper sense of his own importance, and should chafe at restraint, to the end that when his chance did come to prove himself he would jump at it. Envy, he calculated the unrighteous envy of men less fortunately placed would make a good beginning. And it did, though hardly in the way he calculated.
I had to pass through one of the verandahs, where my sister-in- law used to sit in the morning slicing betel-nut. I refused to feel awkward. "Whither away, Chota Rani?" she cried. "To the sitting-room outside." "So early! A matinee, eh?" And, as I passed on without further reply, she hummed after me a flippant song.
With that she sprang out of bed, and slipping on a dull blue dressing-gown, hurried into the dining-room, where she and Michael always met for chota hazri. Here she found him, in Japanese smoking suit and slippers, smiling contentedly over an item of his early post. "What's pleasing you, mon cher?" she asked absently, depositing a light kiss on his hair.
The mahout, after the mysterious manner of his kind, was giving his charge minute directions to be very careful with me, when I suddenly felt myself seized by Chota Begum's trunk, lifted into the air, and held upside down at the extreme length of that member, for, it seemed to me, at least five minutes.
White-clad servants strapped up their employers' bedding for in India the railway traveller must bring his own with him and collected the luggage, while the masters and mistresses crowded into the refreshment room for chota hazri, or early breakfast.
The series usually consisted of from three to five beds, sometimes only two, decreasing in size from the lower one upward. These apparently marked the stages of the growth of the mound, the upper one always being near the present surface. The large mound which is on the supposed site of Chota, and possibly the one on which Mrs.
The two old sportsmen felt it their duty to be first on such an occasion as this, and in the calm security that they would do everything that was right, Isaacs and I discussed our tea and fruit the chota haziri or "little breakfast" usually taken in India on waking sitting in the door of our tent, while Kiramat Ali and Narain and Mahmoud and the rest of the servants were giving a final rub to the weapons of the chase, and making all the little preparations for a long day.
On from Alsoo after Chota Hazree or first breakfast to Lunka, a small island, which is only fifty yards square, is thickly covered with pine trees, with trailing grape vines clinging around their boughs, on it stands an old ruin, and fallen pillars and carved stones litter the ground.
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