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"'Captain Gahagan, sobbed she, 'Go-Go-Goggle-iah! "'My soul's adored! replied I. "'Swear to me one thing. "'I swear. "'That if that if the nasty, horrid, odious black Mah-ra-a-a- attahs take the fort, you will put me out of their power. "I clasped the dear girl to my heart, and swore upon my sword that, rather than she should incur the risk of dishonour, she should perish by my own hand.
Gahagan loves the moon-face called Belinda." "He does, Vizier, to distraction." "Of what rank is he in the Koompani's army?" "A captain." "A miserable captain oh, shame! Of what creed is he?" "I am an Irishman, and a Catholic." "But he has not been very particular about his religious duties?" "Alas, no!" "He has not been to his mosque for these twelve years?" "'Tis too true."
I would I WOULD advance, if but to gaze upon her for a moment, and to bless her as she slept. I DID look, I DID advance; and, O Heaven! I saw a lamp burning, Mrs. Jow. in a night-dress, with a very dark baby in her arms, and Julia looking tenderly at an ayah, who was nursing another. "Oh, Mamma," said Julia, "what would that fool Gahagan say if he knew all?"
"The Commander-in-Chief is proud thus publicly to declare his high sense of the gallantry of Lieutenant Gahagan, of the cavalry. In the storming of the fortress, although unprovided with a single ladder, and accompanied but by a few brave men, Lieutenant Gahagan succeeded in escalading the inner and fourteenth wall of the place.
"I went down, rightly conjecturing, as it turned out, that the party, whoever they might be, had no artillery; and received at the point of my sword a scroll of which the following is a translation. "'To Goliah Gahagan Gujputi. "'LORD OF ELEPHANTS, SIR, I have the honour to inform you that I arrived before this place at eight o'clock p.m. with ten thousand cavalry under my orders.
O lips! O dainty frocks of white muslin! O tiny kid slippers! though old and gouty, Gahagan sees you still! I recollect, off Ascension, she looked at me in her particular way one day at dinner, just as I happened to be blowing on a piece of scalding hot green fat. I made no attempt to swallow, or to masticate it, but left it there for many minutes, burning, burning!
A film came over my eyes exhausted nature would bear no more. "Where am I?" I exclaimed, looking round and examining the strange faces, and the strange apartment which met my view. "Bekhusm!" said the apothecary. "Silence! Gahagan Sahib is in the hands of those who know his valour, and will save his life." "Know my valour, slave?
Gahagan, as a token of respect from the first to the bravest officer in the army." Calculating the snuff to be worth a halfpenny, I should say that fourpence was about the value of this gift: but it has at least this good effect it serves to convince any person who doubts my story, that the facts of it are really true.
One point, however, became in the course of this campaign QUITE evident THAT SOMETHING MUST BE DONE FOR GAHAGAN. The country cried shame, the King's troops grumbled, the sepoys openly murmured that their Gujputi was only a lieutenant, when he had performed such signal services. What was to be done? Lord Wellesley was in an evident quandary.
The impetuous old man thereon poured out a multitude of questions: "How many men are there in the fort?" said he; "how many women? Is it victualled? have they ammunition? Did you see Gahagan Sahib, the commander? did you kill him?" All these questions Jeswunt Row Holkar puffed out with so many whiffs of tobacco.
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