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On July 26 Willis writes to Dr. Porter: 'I have engaged a new contributor to the Corsair. Who do you think? The author of Yellowplush and Major Gahagan. He has gone to Paris, and will write letters from there, and afterwards from London for a guinea a close column of the Corsair cheaper than I ever did anything in my life. For myself, I think him the very best periodical writer alive.
Such are the uncertainties of war! To strap on my sabre and my accoutrements to mount my Arab charger to drink off what O'Gawler had left of the sangaree and to gallop to the General, was the work of a moment. I found him as comfortably at tiffin as if he were at his own house in London. "The enemy psha! Mr. Gahagan, the enemy is on the other side of the river."
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!
Icy winter is followed by merry spring-time grief is often succeeded by joy." "Interpret, O riddler!" said I; "Gahagan Khan is no reader of puzzles no prating mollah. Gujputi loves not words, but swords." "Listen, then, O Gujputi: you are in Holkar's power." "I know it." "You will die by the most horrible tortures to-morrow morning." "I dare say."
When I published my volume of poems, for instance, the Morning Post newspaper remarked "that the Lyrics of the Heart, by Miss Gahagan, may be ranked among the sweetest flowrets of the present spring season." It was time to put an end to these mistakes, and I have taken the above simple remedy. I was urged to it by a very exalted personage.
Gahagan, who was a profound philosopher and politician, and had projected many excellent schemes for the good of his country. But it seems these literati had been very ill rewarded for their ingenious labours; for, between them both, there was but one shirt, and half a pair of breeches.
The great wealth-winners, the only fame-achievers, the sole objects worthy of a soldier's consideration, are beefsteaks, gunpowder, and cold iron. Such were our numbers: Ladies 74 Troops and artillerymen 40 Other non-combatants 11 MAJOR-GEN. O'G. GAHAGAN 1000 1,125
"Hearken now, Gahagan Khan. His Highness Prince Holkar has sent me to thee. You shall have the moon-face for your wife your second wife, that is; the first shall be the incomparable Puttee Rooge, who loves you to madness; with Puttee Rooge, who is the wife, you shall have the wealth and rank of Bobbachy Bahawder, of whom his Highness intends to get rid.
"But stop," says I. "O ladies, O ladies: O gentlemen, gentlemen, that you should ever have come to the quarters of Goliah Gahagan, and he been without " "What?" said they, in a breath. "Alas I alas! I have not got a single stick of chocolate in the whole house." "Well, well, we can do without it." "Or a single pound of coffee." "Never mind; let that pass too."
I made court to the nasty mother in order to be near the daughter; and I listened untiringly to Jowler's interminable dull stories, because I was occupied all the time in watching the graceful movements of Miss Julia. But the trumpet of war was soon ringing in our ears; and on the battle-field Gahagan is a man!
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