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I saw the dearest little Maharanee blazing in magnificent jewels and looking so scared, and shy, and sweet. There was a supper-room, and lots to eat if one could have got at it, or had had room to eat it after it had been got. I don't like champagne "simpkin" they call it here much to drink, but I like it less when it is shot down my back by a careless man.
They were astonishingly well informed about the outer world even the far-flung outer world, yet asked the most childish questions; and only a few of them could have written their own names, they who were titled ladies of a land of ancient chivalry. "Wait until I am maharanee!" Yasmini said. "The women have always ruled India.
Let that be for a pledge between us for a sign or a token of my oath that on the day I am Maharajah Howrah, you are Maharanee mistress of all the jewels in the treasure-house!" She shuddered. She did not look to find the blood; she took his word for that, if for nothing else. "I wonder you dare tell me that you plot against your brother!"
As it had been agreed that strict native fashion was to be observed, we were all shoeless. The Maharanee, laughing like a child, sprinkled us with rose-water, and threw garlands of flowers and wreaths of tinsel round our necks. I felt like a walking Christmas-tree as we went down to dinner. Round a large, empty, marble-paved room, twelve little red-silk beds were disposed, one for each guest.
When I am maharanee, that temple shall stand whole again!" In front of the temple, between them and the trees, was a pond edged with carved stone. Lotus leaves floated on the water, and one blue flower was open wide to welcome whoever loved serenity. Still hand in hand, they crossed the clearing mid-way to the pond, and there Yasmini bade them stand. "Draw no nearer. Only stand and watch."
"'It will devolve on you to have two men ready to take advantage of the confusion of the scuffle and lead away the mules with the palankeen, conducting the maharanee to a place which she herself will indicate. This you understand? "'I understand.
The mob would suffer in the process, but its fanaticism its religious prejudice and numbers would surely win the day. As for Rosemary McClean, the more he considered her the more his brown eyes glowed. He had promised to make her Maharanee. But he knew too thoroughly what that would mean not to entertain more than a passing doubt as to the wisdom of the course.
Thin we got fair jammed among the palanquins not more than fifty av them an' we grated an' bumped like Queenstown potato-smacks in a runnin' tide. I cud hear the women gigglin' and squirkin' in their palanquins, but mine was the royal equipage. They made way for ut, an', begad, the pink muslin men o' mine were howlin', "Room for the Maharanee av Gokral-Seetarun."
I had first met the Maharanee in London, in 1887, at the festivities in connection with Queen Victoria's Jubilee. The Maharanee, the daughter of a very ancient Bengal family, was then quite young. She had only emerged "from behind the curtain," as natives of India say, for six months.
But if I escape by thy aid, and if, at thy instance, these Rangars and their friends ride to my help against my brother, then I will throw all my weight men and influence in the scale on the British side." "And ?" "And thou shalt be Maharanee!" "Never!" "But in case that the British should be beaten before we reach them, then, sahiba! Then in case of thy need!"
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