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The only answer to his remonstrances was an intimation from the Rani that she declined to receive him again until he had referred the matter to Ranjitgarh and could bring her a definite answer.
He was to observe many other things besides the irrigation system in the course of his journeys Partab Singh's military dispositions, the attitude of the people towards him, and also towards Ranjitgarh and the British, and the amount of union or disunion visible between the Mohammedan and Granthi elements in the population.
It was a point of honour to assist their labours by harrying them with a constant dropping fire of minutes and remonstrances, with an occasional round-shot in the shape of interference on the part of the Supreme Government, deftly engineered from Ranjitgarh.
When he and Charteris left Ranjitgarh together, he had envied his friend, and wished that his work also lay in the open air and among unsophisticated children of nature.
I shall attend the Rani Sahiba to Ranjitgarh myself." Starving oneself to force a debtor to pay. Fixture. "Have you cleared out a tent for the Rani, Bob? I was going to ask you to do it, but when I looked for you, you had disappeared." "Yes, she and her women are safely secluded. But what I really made myself scarce for was to secure the guns." "Old boy, you are a genius!
One concession after another had been wrung by his diplomacy from the hands of weakling or child, the right to raise troops in his own name, to fortify the city of Agpur, and though this was still contested by certain Ranjitgarh stalwarts the power of nominating his successor instead of merely recommending his eldest son to the favour of his suzerain.
They will have fetched the ladies down from the hills if there is trouble." "I think not. Old Cinnamond has taken the field, but there are plenty of troops in Ranjitgarh. But if she is there, Hal?" "I might speak I ain't master of myself, Bob." "Well, my dear fellow, and why not? Have you forgot what I said that you were to have the next turn?
Mr James Antony, acting-Resident at Ranjitgarh owing to the absence of his brother on sick-leave, wore a worried look as he entered his wife's room. "I will do what I can, love, but I am never quite sure how to approach these young men. If only dear Theodora were here " Mrs James was alluding to her sister-in-law, Mrs Edmund Antony.
When we get back to Ranjitgarh, leave me free to speak to her if I meet her first. If I find that it is you after all, I promise you to make no attempt to persuade her, and if you meet her first, of course you will find out for yourself." "I believe you, my boy! And I only hope we may find out definitely. This uncertainty plays the very mischief with a man when he has time to think of it."
Whereas you have left everything in inspection order, and can sit dharna on his doorstep for just as long as he can stand seeing you there." "My patience has its limits," said Gerrard, smiling. "If the illness refused to yield to the fakir's treatment, it might become necessary to send for a European physician from Ranjitgarh, and to blow in the gates that he might be able to visit his patient.
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