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They could hear her heart beating in thick, sick bumps. "Slowly, slowly," said Janki. "I am an old man, and I forget many things. This is Tibu's gallery, but where are the four bricks where they used to put their huqa fire on when the Sahibs never saw? Slowly, slowly, O you people behind." They heard his hands disturbing the small coal on the floor of the gallery and then a dull sound.
Tooni kissed his feet, and Sonny Sahib nodded approval at him. Somehow, Sonny Sahib never could be taught good Rajput manners. 'The boy is well grown, said the Maharajah, turning upon his heel. 'What is his name? 'Protector of the poor, answered Tooni, quivering with delight, 'his name is Sonny Sahib. Perhaps nobody has told you why the English are called Sahibs in India.
But the matter hath already been peacefully settled with these men. Moreover, there be the officer Sahibs also, desiring breakfast; and my son hath commanded everything of the best for your Honour's reception: even wood and grass in abundance, that labour might be spared."
He enlarged on this sin and its consequences till they bade him change the subject. Their one hope, said he, was unostentatious flight from village to village till they reached civilization; and, for the hundredth time dissolved in tears, he demanded of the high stars why the Sahibs 'had beaten holy man'.
Then: "He is good. He will do!" said the black-beard who had brought the lamp. "He is good. But many sahibs would have acted coolly, thus. There must be a greater test. There must be no doubt no littlest doubt. Alwa and the others will ask me on my honor, and I will answer on my honor, yes or no."
"Shiraz," he called, "Shiraz," and the servant sprang like a shadow from the darkness in response to his master's summons. "To-night I go out." Coryndon waved his hand. "To-morrow I go out, and of the third day I cannot tell. Let it be known to the servant people that, like all travelling Sahibs, I wish to see the evil of the great city.
To think of it causes me to perspirate with sweat. Sahibs, that is a " "You shall go to jail if you don't tell me what I want to know!" said Kirby. "Ah, sahib, I was jail clerk once dismissed for minor offenses but cumulative in effect. Being familiar with inside of jail, am able to make choice." "Get on the box-seat with him!" commanded Kirby. "Let him show the driver where to turn.
We all know that thou wast in England eating and drinking with the Sahibs. We are all surprised that thou canst still speak Punjabi. The Subadar-Major's carefully-tended beard bristled. 'There was no woman, the Regimental Chaplain growled. 'It was land. Hear, you! Rutton Singh and Attar Singh were the elder of four brothers.
'They've done everything they could, short of murder, said The Infant. 'You know what this'll mean for the regiment. It isn't as if we were dealing with Sahibs nowadays. 'Quite so. Stalky turned on me. 'Go and release the bagman, he said. ''Tisn't my garage, I pleaded. 'I'm company. Besides, he'll probably slay me. He's been in the sack for hours.
And yet thanks to his equal understanding of the words and deeds of Nurse Beaton, Major Decies, Lieutenant Ochterlonie, his father, the Officers of the Regiment, and the Europeans of the station he had a clear, if unconscious, understanding that what was customary for native servants was neither customary nor possible for Sahibs.... But he knew too much....
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