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"I was, as the phrase goes, dying with curiosity, and as soon as we mounted our horses, exclaimed 'Where, in the name of goodness, did you pick up your acquaintance with the language of those extraordinary people? "'Some years ago, in Moultan, he replied.
By the side of the large tablet was a smaller one, placed there to the memory of the brave Sir Lionel Verner, who had fallen near Moultan. Lionel involuntarily glanced up at it, as he stood now over the vault, and a wish came across him that his father's remains were here, amidst them, instead of in that far-off grave. The service was soon over, and Stephen Verner was left in his resting-place.
He fell in one of the skirmishes that took place near Moultan, and the two letters one going to Europe with tidings of his death, the other going to India with news of his father's illness crossed each other on the route. "Steevy," said old Mr. Verner to his younger son, after giving a passing lament to Sir Lionel, "I shall leave Verner's Pride to you."
In A.D. 1819, encouraged by recent successes against Moultan, Runjeet Singh collected an army "as numerous as ants and locusts," and invaded the valley a second time, and being successful, the country again fell under the sway of a Hindoo Sovereign.
"I have been everywhere," he said to the simple company at a Welsh inn. Speaking to Colonel Napier in 1839 at Seville, he said that he had picked up the Gypsy tongue "some years ago in Moultan," and he gave the impression that he had visited most parts of the East. A little too much has been made of this "veiled period," not by Borrow, but by others.
Upon the morrow Bahaweel-Khan, governor of one of the eastern provinces of Cabul, arrived, bringing magnificent presents for the English ambassador, whom he conducted by the river Hyphases as far as Moultan, a town famous for its silk manufactures.
"I was, as the phrase goes, dying with curiosity, and as soon as we mounted our horses, exclaimed: 'Where, in the name of goodness, did you pick up your acquaintance with the language of these extraordinary people? 'Some years ago, in Moultan, he replied.
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