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Then Vandover could hear him threshing about uneasily; still half asleep he began to mutter and swear: "Dat's it, r-roll; I woult if I were you; r-roll, dat's righd dhere, soh ah, geep it oop r-roll, you damnt ole tub, yust r-r-roll." The continued pitching, the foul air, and the bitter smoke from the saloonkeepers' cigars became more than Vandover could stand.
Arrival of Jung Bahadoor in Ceylon Voyage to Calcutta Rifle practice on board the Atalanta Rifle-shooting Colonel Dhere Shum Shere A journey along the Grand Trunk Road of Bengal The experimental railway The explosion at Benares.
My friend Colonel Dhere Shum Shere now came up, whistling the Sturm Marsch, and challenged me to a game of billiards: he was in his manner more thoroughly English than any native I ever knew, and both in appearance and disposition looked as if he was an Anglo-Saxon who had been dyed by mistake.
It was out of the question my leaving Katmandu without paying a farewell visit to the Minister's two younger brothers, Juggut and Colonel Dhere Shum Shere, so I hurried over in the afternoon to their house, which was situated in the centre of the town.
In leaving these two excellent young men, I bade adieu to the last of my fellow-travellers from Ceylon. My especial favourite of them all was Colonel Dhere Shum Shere, whose thoroughly frank and amiable disposition endeared him to every one, while his courage and daring commanded universal respect.
Filling my plate with rice, which had been well and carefully greased to improve its flavour, and scientifically mixing the various other ingredients therewith, I unhesitatingly launched a spoonful into my mouth, when I was severely punished for my temerity, and almost overcome by the detestable compound of tastes and smells that at once assailed both nose and palate: it was a pungent, sour, bitter, and particularly greasy mouthful; but what chiefly astonished me, so much as to prevent my swallowing it for some time, was the perfume of Colonel Dhere Shum Shere, the fat brother, which I was immediately sensible of, as overpowering everything else.
You'll have to bear it but we'll do our best for you. I will do my best for you always ALWAYS in sickness or out of sickness There!" He pronounced there oddly, not quite dhere. "You haven't heard from your husband?" he added. "I had a letter " sobs "from the bank this morning."
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