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Between these nowker log, the servant-people, and his own jat or class, the Sahib-log, the master-people, were the troopers, splendid Sikhs, Rajputs, Pathans and Punjabis, men of honour, courage, physique, tradition. Grand fighters, loyal as steel while properly understood and properly treated in other words, while properly officered.
She was an honest woman, or they would never have engaged her and paid her passage all the way to India. But she was not of their jat, and she was a fool. It happens, however, that her point of view saved England for the English, and that the other point of view had brought England to the brink of utter ruin.
Then he stalked out of the room, with a slight bow to Yasmini as he passed. "Buffalo!" she murmured after him. "Jat buffalo!" Then the Germans went away, after some heavy compliments that seemed to amuse Yasmini prodigiously, helping along the man who had drunk sherbet and who now seemed inclined to weep. They dragged him down the stairs between them, backward.
A period of very great confusion ensued in the Jat State; nor was it till two more of the sons of Suraj Mal had perished one certainly by violence that the supremacy of the remaining son, Ranjit Singh, was secured.
I said: 'Was it five hundred? And Kirpa Ram, the jat, said: 'Five hundred; for I bore witness also. And I groaned, for it had been in my heart to have said two hundred only. Then a new fear came upon me and my bowels turned to water, and, running swiftly to the house of Ram Dass, I sought for my books and my money in the great wooden chest under my bedstead.
It could only be approached through my garden; and as there was no wagon road, the pilgrims were always open to inspection, so to speak; and they were well worth inspection, as among them were many races, all ages, both sexes, every caste or jat; robes, turbans and cupras of every shape and colour; fakirs and wonder-workers, and beggars galore.
Joining the Sikh forces to his own, the Majad-ud-daulah next proceeded northwards, but was brought to a check at Pattiala by Amar Singh, the Jat chief of that state.
The Mahratta collectors were expelled from the districts of the Doab, while Agra admitted a Jat garrison; nor did the discomfited freebooters of the southern confederacy make any farther appearance in Hindustan for eight years, if we except the share borne by Malhar Rao, acting on his own account in the disastrous campaign against the British in 1765.
Does he go afoot, for the sake of past sins? the Jat demanded cautiously. 'It is a far cry to Delhi. 'No, said Kim. 'I will beg a tikkut for the te-rain. One does not own to the possession of money in India. 'Then, in the name of the Gods, let us take the fire-carriage. My son is best in his mother's arms.
Sir Banas, he comes in the night and makes them all alive at the back of our kitchen-midden, piped the child. 'And so thou art not frightened at anything. Eh, Prince? 'I was frightened because my father was frightened. I felt his arms shake. 'Oh, chicken-man! said Kim, and even the abashed Jat laughed. 'I have done a healing on this poor trader.
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