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Therefore, the Havildar, taking his tulwar, smote one of us lightly on the forearm in the fat, and another on the leg, and a third on the back of the hand. Thus dealt he with all of us till the blood came; and Suruj Bul, more eager than the others, took out much hair. O Sahib, never was so perfect an arrangement. Yea, even I would have sworn that the Thana had been treated as we said.

The shoes of all four were polished in time; and they were ready to begin their explorations of the city, though it was rather late in the day. "What time is dinner, Moro?" asked Scott. "Seven o'clock, sahib," replied the boy; and he was more of a boy than a man. "What time are the other meals?" "Meals?" queried Moro. "What time is breakfast?"

I suspect they were from the force of Law, sahib; he was, I know, at Patna a few days ago." Desmond hesitated no longer. His affection for Mr. Merriman prompted an attempt to save the ladies: his mission from Clive was to discover the movements of the French. If he set off on Diggle's track he might succeed in both.

Had I known that night it was Your Honour I would not have lifted my rifle against you. The Sahib has always been good to me, to all of us. My enemy I slew, as we of the Puktana must do to all who insult us. That deed I do not regret." Wargrave looked up sorrowfully at the splendidly-built young fellow barely twenty-one who had only done as he had been taught to do from his cradle.

"You are very kind, Rajah Sahib. I'm afraid I'm not to be helped." The sight of that awkward shame and misery drove all personal grief from Nehal's mind. He drew forward a chair and seated himself opposite his companion, clasping his sinewy, well-shaped hands on the table before him. "Let us try and put all formalities aside," he said. "If you can treat me as a friend, let nothing prevent you.

Apparently convinced, this ticket-agent announced his intention of endeavouring to find a tonga for the sahib. Besides, he was not unwilling to acquire rupees.

When the ladies reached Bankipore there was still no Martell, but only a chuprassee with a note to say that the juice was still running, and that Martell sahib could not leave the factory but would be waiting for them at Segowlie. At this even Mrs. Freeze almost lost her temper.

Drive t' hekka into t' Padsahi Jhil into t' waiter. Leave t' Sahib theer an' roon hoam; an' here's a rupee for tha,"

"I had forgotten," said the Lascar, slowly, "that to those fasting and unused, the opium is worse than any wine. Those who die in Gunga go to the Gods. Still, I have no desire to present myself before such great ones. Can the Sahib swim?" "What need? He can fly fly as swiftly as the wind," was the thick answer. "He is mad!" muttered Peroo, under his breath.

Kiftan Sahib keeps a desultory lookout for him all the evening, but the wary negro is more eagerly watchful than he, and during supper-time he hovers perpetually about the encircling wall of darkness, ready to vanish into its impenetrable depths at the first aggressive demonstration. The explanation of the negro is that the black horse laid down with his load.