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Sherrick, and am answerable for the payment of the rent till the expiry of the lease. James has taken the matter off my hands entirely. The place is greatly too large for him, but he says that he likes it, and intends to stay, and that his sister and niece shall be his housekeepers. James is richer than I thought by near a lakh of rupees and here is a hint for you, Master Arthur. Mr.
They at the same time restored to Zabita Khan whom they hoped hereafter to make into a serviceable tool the members of his family taken at Pathargarh; receiving in exchange a ransom of a lakh and a half of rupees, which was advanced to them on Zabita's account, by the Viceroy Shujaa-ud-daulah.
The animal belonging to the loser was then sacrificed and pushed over the precipice to clear the way for the other. In the wet season a foaming torrent dashes through the Valley of Lakh, but this was, at the time of my visit, a dry bed of rock and shingle.
No!" checking me a second time "not a rupee please. Go out and see if you can find the eyes-brain-and-stomach business again. I'll give you a lakh for each time you see it." Half an hour later I was in the Mannerings' drawing-room with Kitty drunk with the intoxication of present happiness and the foreknowledge that I should never more be troubled with Its hideous presence.
Then the Brahman replied, 'Only a pound of meal to make a girdle cake, for I am hungry! 'Nay, said the king, 'it is worth more than that! So he sent for a lakh of rupees from his treasury, and counted it over to the Brahman, who went on his way rejoicing.
His new possessions consisted of 14 Pargannas, forming an aggregate of 250 townships, and yielding a total revenue of nearly three lakhs of rupees, Thomas being forced to make very moderate settlements with the farmers in order to realize anything. From his former estates, acquired in the Mahratta service, which he still retained, he derived nearly a lakh and a half more.
Thereupon Pinga said: Interrupt my meditation, and I will curse the city, so as to deprive it of both sun and rain. So fearing his curse, the King had recourse to diplomacy. And he sent his purohita at night, who secretly induced that obstinate ascetic to go away, of his own accord, by giving him a lakh.
Ram Dass lent him the money, a lakh or half a lakh how do I know? and so long as the money was lent, the landholder cared not what he signed. The People of Isser Jang were my portion, and the landholder and the out-town was the portion of Ram Dass; for so we had arranged. I was the poor man, for the people of Isser Jang were without wealth.
"Then tell her, when consciousness returns, that I have gone and will return for her. And stay here, thou, and guard her until I come." "Ha, sahib!" "Now, show the way!" "But " said the priest, "our bargain? The price that we agreed on one lakh, was it not?" "One lakh of devils take thee and tear thee into little pieces! Wouldst bribe a Rajput, a Risaldar?
There, where lies the skeleton of a jackal half-buried in sand, an Indian banker had his habitat and office only a few months before, with a lakh of rupees stacked in a conspicuous place as glittering earnest of his ability to pay well for anything remarkable in the way of a pearl.
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