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Lucille appeared puzzled and put this incoherence aside. "What a baby never to see ellyfunts! I've seen lots. Hundreds. Zoo. Circuses. Persessions. Camels, too." "Oh, I used to ride a camel every day. There was one in the compound with his oont-wallah, Abdul Ghaffr; and Khodadad Khan used to beat the oont-wallah on cold mornings to warm himself." "What's an oont-wallah?" "Don't you know?
The English had also on their side all the chief officers in the Nawab's army Jafar All Khan, Khodadad Khan Latty, and a number of others who were attached to them by their presents or the influence of the Seths, all the ministers of the old Court whom Siraj-ud-daula had disgraced, nearly all the secretaries, the writers of the Durbar, and even the eunuchs of the harem.
At leatht, Khodadad Khan, Orderly, knocked the holes in the tin like I showed him or elthe got the Farrier Thargeant to do it, and thaid he had." "Yes but who told you how to make it like this? Where did you see a hand-part like this? It isn't like Daddy's sword, nor Khodadad Khan's tulwar. Where did you copy it?" "I didn't copy it.... I shot ten rats wiv a bow-and-arrow last night.
Picking him up, the callous-hearted father strode out to where Khodadad Khan held "Fire's" bridle, handed him to the orderly, mounted, received him again from the man, and, holding him in his strong right arm, cantered to the bungalow of Major John Decies since it lay on the road to the parade-ground. Would the jerking hurt the little beggar in his present comatose state?
To receive a quarter-mile start on the race-course and ride a mile race against Khodadad Khan on his troop-horse, or with one of the syces on one of the Colonel's polo-ponies, or with some obliging male or female early morning rider, was the joy of his life.
How Grumper, Father, Major Decies, and even Khodadad Khan and the sepoys would have laughed at the get-up. Nay, they would have blushed for the fellow a Sahib, a gentleman to tog himself up so! The boy also liked the man's voice when he turned towards the tent and called:
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