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He began offering some expressions of sympathy to Mr. Holwell, and assured him that he would use his influence with his nephew to procure our release. While Meer Jaffier was talking to Mr. Holwell, I saw my cousin slowly approaching me. I turned my back, so loth was I to hold intercourse with him, but he came up, and persisted in addressing me.
The Nabob, instead of displaying any interest in our condition, or pretending any regret for the massacre of our fellow prisoners, at once addressed Mr. Holwell in a very peremptory manner. "Now, English dog, you have had a night to consider," he said insolently, "are you disposed to behave more civilly to me in the matter of the treasure?" Poor Mr.
The prince was firmly persuaded that the Company had somewhere concealed a vast treasure, which had been his principal motive to push the attack of the place. He had threatened Mr. Holwell very severely unless this treasure were found, and dismissed him to consult with his fellow-prisoners.
I remembers it, Sir, 'cause I kept it in the little parlour nearly a year, to be in the way like." "Ah! I thinks I do remember it now," said Master Holwell. "I should think it's a matter of twelve yearn ago. I suppose I may sell it without fear of the gentleman's claiming it again."
Mr. Holwell, who had placed himself at one of the windows, accosted a jemmautdaar, or Serjeant of the Indian guard, and having endeavoured to excite his compassion, by drawing a pathetic picture of their sufferings, promised to gratify him with a thousand rupees in the morning, if he could find means to remove one half of them into a separate apartment.
Everyone seems to think we're going to do Holwell good and proper." "I hope so," murmured Tom, as he bent over his writing. "I'm going to play my best, if they let me go in the game." "Oh, I guess they will," said Jack; and then the silence in the room was broken only by the scratching of Tom's pen. "'Rah! 'Rah! 'Rah! Elmwood!" "Three cheers for Holwell!"
"And the gentleman, you say, was at Mr. Courtland's." "Yes, Sir, that I'm sure of," replied the intelligent Mrs. Holwell; "they said he had come lately from Ingee."
Holwell; who, after sucking it for a moment, again passed it on to several standing round; and in this way many of those, who would otherwise have succumbed, were enabled to hold on until morning. Presently the first dawn of daylight appeared, giving fresh hopes to the few survivors.
"I heartily wish it were in my power to deliver you all, gentlemen, but unfortunately that is what I can't do. I have secured a means by which I may carry off my young kinsman here, though at great danger to myself. But if it comes to the four of you, then I confess I must abandon the scheme." On this Mr. Holwell renewed his protestations, urging me by no means to neglect Rupert's offer.
Holwell's designs were so wicked they certainly must be known to the Nabob, though he never mentioned them in the conference of the morning or the evening of the 15th; yet such was now the weight and prevalence of them upon the Major's mind, that he calls upon Mr. Hastings to know whether the Nabob was not informed of these designs of Mr. Holwell against him. Mr.
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