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He was happy. Here was the long delayed opportunity for the hand of the British Raj: a captive white woman. What better excuse was needed? There would be armed Sikhs and Gurhas and Tommies near Rawal Pindi. Ai! how time moved, how fate twisted! How the finest built castle in schemes came clattering down!
Mulvaney said nothing, but looked at me as if he expected that I could bring peace to poor Ortheris' troubled brain. I remembered once at Rawal Pindi having seen a man, nearly mad with drink, sobered by being made a fool of. Some regiments may know what I mean. I hoped that we might slake off Ortheris in the same way, though he was perfectly sober. So I said
There will rise a war a war of eight thousand redcoats. From Pindi and Peshawur they will be drawn. This is sure. 'The boy has heard bazar-talk, said the priest. 'But he was always by my side, said the lama. 'How should he know? I did not know. 'He will make a clever juggler when the old man is dead, muttered the priest to the headman. 'What new trick is this? 'A sign.
Thence they had made their way to Rawal Pindi where Ralph had several military friends to be introduced to his bride. It was evident that he was anxious to display his new possession, and Tommy frowned a little over that episode, realizing fully why Stella touched so lightly upon it. For some reason his dislike of Dacre was increasing rapidly, and he read the letter very critically.
Lord William was somewhat annoyed at the time; but when cooler, he saw the sound military spirit underlying the incident, and hence always mentioned it with commendation. It appears that as the Guides' cavalry were marching in to Rawul Pindi for a concentration of troops, just before they reached their camping-ground they passed a pond by the roadside.
They had refused, that is, to acknowledge the governor he had nominated. The Gakkhars inhabited, as their descendants inhabit now, that part of the Punjab which may be described as forming the north-eastern part of the existing district of Ráwal Pindí. To enforce his orders Akbar sent thither an army, and this army, after some sharp fighting, succeeded in restoring order.
We stayed a couple of days at Pindi, in order to make arrangements for transporting ourselves and our luggage into Kashmir. The journey can be made viâ Murree in about a couple of days by mail tonga, but it is a joyless and horribly wearing mode of travel.
Ten years back, in the pride of my giddy youth, I held a Junior Sub's commission in the Lancers in India. This is just a synopsis of my case, mind! . . . Well! the regiment was lying at Rawal Pindi, and I guess I kind of ran amuck there got myself into a rotten esclandre entirely my own fault I'll admit: Man is fire, and Woman is tow, And the Devil, he comes and begins to blow
The road from Tret to Pindi seemed tame to us, but probably charming to the horses, first down a few gently sloping hills, and then for the remainder of its six-and-twenty miles it wound its dull and dusty length along the level. We halted for our last picnic lunch in a roadside garden full of loquat trees and big purple hibiscus.
Chichele, but it was I who actually introduced them; my palmy veranda in Rawul Pindi; where the teacups used to assemble, was the scene of it. I presided behind my samovar over the early formalities that were almost at once to drop from their friendship, like the sheath of some bursting flower.
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