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The Senior Captain Commanding Fort Amara was away on leave, but the Subaltern, his Deputy, had drifted down to the Club, where I found him and enquired of him whether it was really true that a political prisoner had been added to the attractions of the Fort.
Colebrooke records his debt to Carey for carrying through the Serampore press the Sanskrit dictionary of Amara Sinha, the oldest native lexicographer, with an English interpretation and annotations. But the magnum opus of Carey was what in 1811 he described as A Universal Dictionary of the Oriental Languages, derived from the Sanskrit, of which that language is to be the groundwork.
"I will go back to Fort Amara of my own free will and gain honor. Give me good clothes to return in," So, at his own time, Khem Singh knocked at the wicket-gate of the Fort and walked to the Captain and the Subaltern, who were nearly grey-headed on account of correspondence that daily arrived from Simla marked "Private,"
I said, dropping into Mulvaney's speech, when we were alone, "it's you that have the Tongue!" He looked at me wearily; his eyes were sunk in his head, and his face was drawn and white, "Eyah!" said he; "I've blandandhered thim through the night somehow, but can thim that helps others help thimselves? Answer me that, sorr!" And over the bastions of Fort Amara broke the pitiless day.
After all it is only the desert men who are here. Amara is their Metropolis, and in it we shall only see their life." His horse plunged. He had touched it sharply with his heel. "I believe you hate the thought of civilisation," she exclaimed. "And you?" "I never think of it. I feel almost as if I had never known it, and could never know it." "Why should you? You love the wilds."
And over the bastions of Fort Amara broke the pitiless day. Hurrah! hurrah! a soldier's life for me! Shout, boys, shout! for it makes you jolly and free. The Ramrod Corps. People who have seen, say that one of the quaintest spectacles of human frailty is an outbreak of hysterics in a girls' school. It starts without warning, generally on a hot afternoon, among the elder pupils.
Rumanika, who appeared immensely delighted as he assisted me in putting the questions I wanted, and saw me note them down in my book, was more confirmed than ever in the truth of my stories that I came from the north, and thought as the beads came to Amara, so should I be able to open the road and bring him more visitors.
"Ask?" "I saw on the table-coffee and and there was liqueur." "Naturally I offered him something." "He didn't ask?" "But, Boris, how could he?" After a moment of silence he said: "No, of course not." He shifted in his chair, crossed one leg over the other, put his hands on the arms of it, and continued: "What did he talk about?" "A little about Amara." "That was all?"
And that morning the camp was struck, and the new journey began the journey back. A silence had fallen between Domini and Androvsky which neither seemed able to break. They rode on side by side across the sands towards the north through the long day. The tower of Amara faded in the sunshine above the white crests of the dunes.
By this time the Turks had collected a considerable army north of Kurna, and on May 31st an expedition was made to disperse it. On June 3d the British captured Amara, seventy-five miles above Kurna, scattering the Turkish army.
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