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I never saw a kind face express more terror than Colonel Newcome's. He started back as if he had himself received the blow from his son. "Gracious God!" he cried out. "My boy insult a gentleman at my table!" "I'd like to do it again," says Clive, whose whole body was trembling with anger. "Are you drunk, sir?" shouted his father.
If Omichund, with the keys of the conspiracy in his hand, threatened to betray all to Surajah Dowlah unless he was promised the heaviest hush-money, Clive on his side was perfectly ready to promise without the remotest intention of paying. If Omichund, wary and suspicious, was determined to have his bond in writing, Clive was quite ready to meet him with a false and fraudulent bond.
Yes, old Mrs Pliny shall be my heroine!" says Clive. A picture of her on a dark grey paper and touched up with red at the extremities, exists in Clive's album to the present day.
This was a step which the conspirators considered indispensable to their design, as they had no expectation that Colonel Clive could overcome this force of forty thousand men as long as it kept the field. Armed with the Colonel's letter I went to wait upon the Nabob, leaving Mr.
Early as the morning yet was, Clive had a visitor, and the door opened to let in Lord Kew's honest face. Ridley retreated before it into his own den; the appearance of earls scared the modest painter, though he was proud and pleased that his Clive should have their company.
In the two years over which this narrative has had to run in the course of as many chapters, the writer had inherited a property so small that it could not occasion a banker's civility; and I put down Sir Barnes Newcome's politeness to a sheer desire to be well with me. But with Lord Highgate and Clive the case was different, as you must now hear.
"Oh," says Clive, "if you talk to him now about those early days, it was a jolly time! I do not believe there was any young fellow in London so happy."
At any rate Courtin found the remnants of his countrymen in despair, and in 1759 he wrote a letter to Clive and the Council of Calcutta, from which I quote one or two paragraphs:
The one hundredth anniversary of the battle of Plassey was celebrated in England June 23, 1857, to obtain funds for a monument to Lord Clive, who secured India to England. The English then felt secure in the government of that land, yet at that very time one of the most wide-spread, destructive and cruel rebellions was raging, and shaking to its very foundations the English rule in Hindostan.
You can hear him now." There was a violent and sustained knocking below deck. "I'll send my man to release him. The fleet are all coming up, sir?" "Yes; the Bridgewater and Kingfisher are close in our wake. Come along; we'll catch the admiral before he goes ashore." Diggle; and our hero continues to wipe off old scores. Desmond received a warm welcome both from Admiral Watson and Colonel Clive.
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