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How Walter can care for those people is a mystery to me." "He ought to be ashamed of himself if he didn't. Lawson Hannay has been a good friend to him." "Do you mean that he's under any obligation to him?" "Yes. Obligations, my dear, that none of us can ever repay." "It's intolerable!" said Anne. "Is it? Wait till you know what the obligations are.
"Need I refer Your Lordships to the strong testimony of Major Naylor when he rescued Colonel Hannay from their hands where you see that this people, born to submission and bent to most abject subjection that even they, in whose meek hearts injury had never yet begot resentment, nor even despair bred courage that their hatred, their abhorrence of Colonel Hannay was such that they clung round him by thousands and thousands; that when Major Naylor rescued him, they refused life from the hand that could rescue Hannay; that they nourished this desperate consolation, that by their death they should at least thin the number of wretches who suffered by his devastation and extortion.
I swear that when I turned round to speak I meant to refuse. But my answer was Yes, and I had crossed the Rubicon. My voice sounded cracked and far away. Sir Walter shook hands with me and his eyes blinked a little. 'I may be sending you to your death, Hannay Good God, what a damned task-mistress duty is! If so, I shall be haunted with regrets, but you will never repent. Have no fear of that.
"Here are cards of the races," he said. "Now is the time, young ladies, to make your bets." "I don't know even the name of anyone in this first race," Isobel said, looking at the card. "That doesn't matter in the least, Miss Hannay," Wilson, who had just come up to the side of the carriage, said.
"Taking it with the one I saw of the attack of Sepoys upon a house, it looks to me, Doctor, as if there would be a mutiny, and that that mutiny would be attended with partial success, that a portion of the garrison, at any rate, will escape, and that Miss Hannay will be traveling down the country, perhaps to Cawnpore, in your charge, while I in some way shall be with you, perhaps acting as guide."
"Is that a reason why I should make a friend of Mrs. Hannay?" "It's a reason why you should be civil to her. You will send an invitation to Gorst at the same time." She winced. "That I cannot do." "You can, dear, and you will. Gorst's in a pretty bad way. I knew he would be. He's got entangled now with some wretched girl, and I've got to disentangle him.
He longed for sympathy, but the girl would not have understood him had he told her his feelings. To her he was a hero, and it would have seemed to her folly had he said that he felt himself altogether unworthy of Isobel Hannay. After he had finished his breakfast Rujub again came in. "What does the sahib intend to do now?" he asked.
Sir Hugh had but a handful of Europeans with him, but had just received a reinforcement of fifty men of the 32d regiment from Lucknow, and he had formed an intrenchment within which the Europeans of the station, and the fugitives who had come in from the districts around, could take refuge. Several communications passed between Sir Hugh Wheeler and Major Hannay.
"Now, Miss Hannay, if you will take my advice," the Doctor said, as soon as the ship was fairly in the stream, "you will go below, get out all the things you will want from your boxes, and get matters tidy and comfortable.
I wondered what was coming, till she said casually, 'Do you know what arrangement Major Hannay has made as to his niece for the races? I said, of course, that the Hunters were coming over to stay. I could see at once that her spirit was instantly relieved of a heavy burden, but she only said, 'Of course, then, that settles the question.
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