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Updated: June 21, 2025
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 fore-knowledge that I should never more be troubled with Its hideous presence.
As commander in India Lord Kitchener is paid a lakh of rupees a year $32,000, and heads an army of 242,000 men 77,000 British and 165,000 native troops. The lieutenant-governor of Bengal, always spoken of as the "L. G." resides in Calcutta and works in close relationship with the viceroy.
The result of the capitulation was that the eldest son of the deceased Afrasyab received an estate, yielding a yearly revenue of a lakh and a half of rupees. The rest of the property valued at a crore, a sum then corresponding to a million of money, but really representing much more of our present currency was seized by Sindhia.
Gungadhura went deeply into debt with Mukhum Dass, to send money to the Mahsudis, who think more of gold than promises. The fool imagines that the English will let him levy, extra taxes afterward to recoup himself. Besides, there would be the daily expenses of his army, from which he could extract a lakh or two. Patali yearns for diamonds in the fillings of her teeth!"
"I will not only set you free; I will give you half a lakh of rupees; you shall have a place at my court, or, if you please, I will recommend you to another prince in whose service you may rise to wealth and honor.
But he did not gain anything by this, for the two players held their cards firmly in their hands, and did not allow this contretemps to disturb their sangfroid for a single moment. "Fifty-one," said McGregor. "Sixty." "Sixty-one." "Seventy." "Seventy-one." "Eighty." "Eighty-one." "A lakh!" cried Irwin, who was now pale from excitement. "Really?" asked McGregor calmly, "that is a fine bid.
Then earn them!" "Oh, my God, sahib, I have positivelee earned a lakh of rupees this night already!" "Where was Risaldar-Major Ranjoor Singh when he " Footsteps were approaching undoubtedly a guard on his way to investigate. The babu seemed to sense Warrington's impatience. "Sahib" he said, "I am very meek person, having family of wife and children all dependent. Is that rupees twenty?
First, ten, fifty, and a hundred rupees; and then, for he did not know when the Gods would pour down their gifts, rupees by the thousand, till he had offered half a lakh of rupees. Upon this sum the mendicant's wife shifted her counsel, and the mendicant signed the bond, and the money was paid in silver; great white bullocks bringing it by the cartload.
A son's not as good as a daughter. Still, I'm better than nothing, aren't I, darling?" "You are better than any one," his mother said, caressing his smooth young cheeks. "You should have wired for Eileen. What's that selfish minx doing? Making up with the lakh of rupees, I suppose?" "Do you know I never remembered Eileen," she said, and laughed for the first time since the accident.
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