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Updated: May 11, 2025
There was nothing defiant or even assertive about him as he applied for admittance. He looked beaten, tried beyond his strength. It was growing rapidly dark as he followed Barnes's khansama into the long bare room which he used as his private office. The man brought him a lamp and told him that the sahibs would be back soon.
When the sound of voices told him at last of the return of the two men, he drew back out of sight of the window while the obsequious khansama went forth upon his errand. Then a moment or two later he heard them separate, and one alone came in his direction. Everard entered with the gait of a tired man. The lamp dazzled him for a second, and Tommy saw him first.
The Commissioner's old Khansama had very strict ideas as to how a "Sahib's" dinner should be served.
Recently the writer heard a Hindu companion in a railway car call his servant at night from an adjoining car to come and turn the shade over the compartment lamp that he might have a nap! A well-known writer, in describing the life of a Babu, says: "The Khansama of a Babu is his most favourite servant.
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