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"Your Highness forgets that the salary they pay a tea-garden engineer is not enough to tempt a girl to marry him nor support them if she did." "That is true," replied the Rajah thoughtfully. He was silent for a little, and then he said: "I will give you an appointment here in the Palace with a salary of a lakh of rupees a year." Chunerbutty's eyes glistened.
"You see there was so little to be done," the lakh responded in a very pleasant voice, which at once secured Lady O'Gara's liking. Besides, his hand-clasp was very warm, so unlike Eileen's chilly cheek. She hoped Eileen was going to be good to him. "I was Eileen's slave always. She had refused me innumerable times. She only had to say she had changed her mind and I procured a special licence."
In the Observer of the 27th September, 1863, in the fifth page and the fourth column, it is thus written: What the codicil is, my dear brethren, it is not our business to inquire. It conveys a benefaction to a faithful and attached friend of the good Field-Marshal. The gift may be a lakh of rupees, or it may be a house and its contents furniture, plate, and wine-cellar.
With the exception of the Lakh Pass leading over a chain of hills about eighteen miles due west of Beïla, the road to Noundra was as flat as a billiard-table.
'A lakh of men beaten by five hundred and Sikhs among them! Surely, surely, I am an old man, but the Kumharsen Gate is new. Who pulled down the stone lions? Where is the conduit? Sahib, I am a very old man, and, alas, I I cannot stand. He dropped in the shadow of the Kumharsen Gate where there was no disturbance. A fat gentleman wearing gold pince-nez came out of the darkness.
Play thy part well, and show thy remorse at cheating thy master even for a lakh of rupees yea, and show fear of what will happen to thee, and pretend distrust of him.
He was a covetous man, and of a black heart, and he desired that lakh of rupees for himself. So he went to the mendicant and said, "O brother, how much do the pious give thee daily?" The mendicant said, "I cannot tell. Sometimes a little rice, sometimes a little pulse, and a few cowries and, it has been, pickled mangoes, and dried fish." 'That is good, said the child, smacking its lips.
He has placed himself, as far only as the foreign relations of the country go, under the suzerainty of the Government of India; and in return we grant him a subsidy of a lakh of rupees a year. It used to be fifty thousand, but the sum was doubled years ago. To get the money one of the State Council comes every year. He is an official called the Deb Zimpun."
'Oh, half a lakh of men. 'Folly! Remember how few and bad were the wells in the sand. Not a thousand thirsty men could come near by here. 'Then write that down also all the old breaches in the walls and whence the firewood is cut and what is the temper and disposition of the King. I stay here till all my horses are sold. I will hire a room by the gateway, and thou shalt be my accountant.
"By the way, Evelyn has discovered that the man who got the lakh of rupees, you remember? had been rather badly treated by Eileen, or so Evelyn's informant said. It is a she a cousin of Evelyn's who is married to somebody up there. Evelyn says he will come again to Castle Talbot if you ask him. He says the duck-shooting was splendid and he congratulated me on you darling. I did myself proud.
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