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How well I remember the evening they arrived she and the two poor yellow shrivelled-up looking little creatures. I remember, sad at heart as we were only two months after the bitter news of my boy's death! Nurse and I could almost have found it in our hearts to laugh when the ayah unwrapped them for us to see. They were so like two miserable little unfledged birds!
The little cabin of the launch can hold two on two coaches, but the lady, after appropriating one, filled up most of the other with bags and impediments of various kinds. The floor was covered with luggage, among which the ayah and infant slept, and the man sat inside on the lowest rung of the ladder.
"Ayah!" she called again, afraid, though she knew not why, to enter. "She guards the jewels, heavenborn! Wait, while I bring the lamp!" He crossed the room, brought it and stepped with it past Ruth, straight into the room. "See!" he said, holding the lamp up above his head. "There in her bosom are the jewels! It was there, too, that she had the knife to slay thee with!
Then she remembered Daisy, and turned to go to her. Out in the passage she met the white-faced English servants huddling together and whispering. One of them was sobbing hysterically. She passed them swiftly by. Back in Daisy's room she found the ayah crouched on the floor, and rocking herself to and fro while she beat her breast and wailed. The door that led into the nursery was closed.
She wanted to, but she was afraid that if she saw her dear Betwixt-and-Between again she would linger with him too long, and besides the ayah now kept a sharp eye on her. But she often talked lovingly of Peter, and she knitted a kettle-holder for him, and one day when she was wondering what Easter present he would like, her mother made a suggestion.
The red glow of barracks burning an ayah from whom a dagger has been taken locked in another room the knowledge that there are fifty thousand Aryan brothers, itching to rebel, within a stone's throw and two lone protectors of an alien race intent on torturing a High Priest, each and every one of these is a disturbing feature.
Indian servants were commanded to do things, not asked. It was not the custom to say "please" and "thank you" and Mary had always slapped her Ayah in the face when she was angry. She wondered a little what this girl would do if one slapped her in the face.
Do you suppose that instead of singing the Ayah song you could just tell me softly as you did that first day what you imagine it looks like inside? I am sure it will make me go to sleep." "Yes," answered Mary. "Shut your eyes." He closed his eyes and lay quite still and she held his hand and began to speak very slowly and in a very low voice.
But he felt that to cry before a native, excepting only his mother's ayah, would be an infamy greater than any mutiny. Moreover, he, as future Colonel of the 195th, had that grim regiment at his back. "Are you going to carry us away?" said Wee Willie Winkie, very blanched and uncomfortable. "Yes, my little Sahib Bahadur," said the tallest of the men, "and eat you afterwards."
She had often been to his place with Mrs. Lindsay; and had, from the time that she entered her service, deposited her savings with him. She had, in the first place, asked her master to keep them for her; but he had advised her to go to Jeemajee. The Parsee was, himself, in his shop. She went up to him. "You do not remember me, sahib?" she said. "I was the ayah of Major Lindsay.
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