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He is an old man, and useless to you as a prisoner. If you exacted a heavy sum from him it would, in all ways, aid your views." "But how do you know that Nana could raise such a sum as would satisfy the troops?" "We have assured ourselves on that score, and I know that it matters not how much Nana Furnuwees will have to give.
It will be a great step for you, and ensure you rapid promotion." "I am indeed obliged to the Governor for selecting me," Harry said, "and will do my best to justify his confidence." Two days later, Nana Furnuwees was brought to Scindia's camp news which caused Bajee Rao intense consternation.
"I have met but one honest man among them. Nana Furnuwees was not only an extraordinary man, but devoted his talents wholly to the good of the state. His word could always be relied upon. His life was simple, and his habits frugal. I honoured and esteemed him, greatly." "Yes, it was owing to you, as my brother told me, that he was released from prison.
Holkar, although at times he and Scindia united, as when the English marched against Poona, has been his rival and enemy. "The Peishwa has sometimes been in alliance with one of these great princes, sometimes with the other. His minister, Nana Furnuwees, is a man of commanding talent.
It would have been unfair to others if I had been promoted then. I am still very young to be a major." "It is not years, but what you have done," Abdool said. "Did you not obtain the release of Nana Furnuwees, and so change the state of affairs, altogether, at Poona?"
The Nizam is estranged; the Rajah of Berar has gone home to Nagpore; Holkar's power is, for the time, subservient to Scindia; and Nana Furnuwees is, therefore, deprived of all those who aided to bring him back to power. "You are well known to Nana, are you not?" "Yes, Colonel, he was kind enough to place a good deal of confidence in me."
"Moreover, you must remember that I have now a deep interest in matters here. Nana Furnuwees has treated me with much kindness, and placed his confidence in me. He has many enemies, as I have told you.
"I saw you but a few times, but Rao Phurkay has often mentioned your name, to me, as being one who stood high in the confidence of my cousin Mahdoo. Nujeef tells me that you have a private communication to make to me; and indeed, I can well believe that. You would not thus disguise yourself, unless the business was important." "It is, Your Highness. Nana Furnuwees has received your message.
I did not think it necessary to mention, in my story, that Nana Furnuwees presented me with a considerable sum of money; and Bajee Rao did the same. This I invested in land close to Bombay, which is now covered with houses, and fetched five times the price I gave for it.
Here and there pausing to listen to the soldiers, he picked up scraps of news; and learned that there was a general expectation that the army would march, in a day or two, towards Poona it being rumoured that Scindia and his minister, Balloba, had been outwitted by Nana Furnuwees; and that Balloba had made no secret of his anger, but vowed vengeance against the man who had overthrown plans which, it had been surely believed, would have resulted in Scindia's obtaining supreme control over the Deccan.
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