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The Nawab's troops hailed this movement with loud shouts of exultation, and, throwing their guns forward, opened a still more vigorous cannonade, which, however, did little damage. If Mir Madan had had the courage and dash to order a combined assault, there is very little doubt that he must have overwhelmed Clive's army by sheer weight of numbers. But he let the opportunity slip.
And to hasten this history to its conclusion the daring and commanding genius of Clive, the patient and firm ability of Watson, the treachery of Mir Jaffier, and the battle of Plassey gave us at once the patronage of a kingdom and the command of all its treasures. We negotiated with Mir Jaffier for the viceroyal throne of his master. On that throne we seated him.
"Here," he handed the man his revolver "I suppose you can use this?" Mir Jan took it without a word, and Jenks felt that the incident atoned for previous unworthy doubts of his dark friend's honesty. The Mahommedan cautiously examined the back of the house, the neighboring shrubs, and the open beach.
I will give thee " "'Nay, my brother, what is this? asked Mir Jan softly, with kind caressing voice. 'What is all this? I do but propose to bathe thine eyes with this same magic water wherewith I bathed mine own, the day before yesterday. Thou didst see me do it thou didst watch me do it. "'Mercy most noble Mir! Have pity, 'twas not I. Mercy! he screamed.
She kept them at the very bottom of a little satin-wood box the faded sprig of dill wrapped round with the bit of paper on which was written the charm-verse: "Alva, aden, winira mir, Villawissen lingen; Sanchta, wanchta, attazir, Hor de mussen wingen." Dame Dorothea Penny kept a private school. It was quite a small school, on account of the small size of her house.
"Yes, Iris?" he said. "I am not sure, but I imagine something moved among the bushes behind the house." "All right, dear. I will keep a sharp look-out. Can you hear us talking?" "Hardly. Will you be long?" "Another minute." He descended and told Mir Jan what the miss-sahib said. The native was about to make a search when Jenks stopped him.
Outside, somebody was singing, in a manly, reckless handsome voice: 'Mach mir auf, mach mir auf, du Stolze, Mach mir ein Feuer von Holze. Vom Regen bin ich nass Vom Regen bin ich nass-' Gudrun knew that that song would sound through her eternity, sung in a manly, reckless, mocking voice. It marked one of her supreme moments, the supreme pangs of her nervous gratification.
I shall state the particulars of this second revolution more at large. Soon after the revolution which had seated Mir Jaffier on the viceroyal throne, the spirit of the Mogul empire began, as it were, to make one faint struggle before it finally expired.
"The difference between salvation by education and salvation by dynamite; the difference between building up and tearing down, between Robespierre and Monsieur Washington." "You must have been indiscreet. How could they have found it out?" "I was bête enough to write an article in the Russki Mir the mildest of articles.
The infant, that confronted the British Government in the Parliament House, had something of the young Hercules about him. In the first exercises of strength he acquired more strength, and in acquiring more strength he burst the bonds that had confined him. "Es machte mir zu eng, ich mussie fort."
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