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He has a vague notion that nabobs come from India, and has heard perhaps of cabobs, but what the difference is, or whether they are not articles of Indian export usually packed in casks, he has not the most remote conception.
He is not living a life of pleasure-seeking and dissipation, like so many other young nabobs in the city. Apparently he has not sought much other society than yours. Pardon me for saying it, but you have not given him much encouragement to avoid the temptations that are likely to assail a lonely, irresponsible young fellow.
"I did get lots on 'em, and traded 'em off to the Nabobs in the interior for Cashmere shawls and India silks and sich," said the Captain, composedly; "and brought 'em home and sold 'em at a good figure, too." "Oh, father!" said Sally, earnestly, "I wish you had saved just one or two for us." "Laws, child, I wish now I had," said the Captain, good-naturedly.
Along and behind Chowringhee there are still a few of the old-time mansions of Thackeray's "nabobs," with their deep, pillared verandahs standing well off from the road, each within its discreet "compound," but they are all rapidly making room for "eligible residences," more opulent perhaps but more closely packed, or for huge blocks of residential flats, even less adapted to the climate.
One of the earliest nabobs that Nevada was delivered of wore $6,000 worth of diamonds in his bosom, and swore he was unhappy because he could not spend his money as fast as he made it. Another Nevada nabob boasted an income that often reached $16,000 a month; and he used to love to tell how he had worked in the very mine that yielded it, for five dollars a day, when he first came to the country.
Then he commanded his Wazirs to write letters to all his Nabobs and vassals, and he indited one-and-twenty writs and despatched them to the governors, who assembled their troops and set out for Cufa by forced marches. And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased saying her permitted say. When it was the Six Hundred and Forty-first Night,
Then, for the first time, Mr. Kendal started, and muttered, 'foolish lad! is he here? Confused cries rose again, but the other voice gained the mastery. 'So you call that undertaker-looking figure there Mr. Kendal. Small credit to your taste. You want to burn him. What for? 'For being a Nabob and a tyrant, was the shout. 'Much you know of Nabobs! No; I'll tell you what it's for.
At this sight, her heart throbbed and she took horse with the Chamberlains and Nabobs and, riding down to the shore, halted by the ship, whilst the sailors broke bulk and bore the bales to the storehouses; after which she called the captain to her presence and asked what he had with him.
They were 'hyperborean nabobs, who travelled with whatever luxury wealth could afford them on the express service by lake and stream. At this time Fort William had the proportions of a good-sized village. Its structures were of wood and were of all shapes and sizes. One commodious building near the centre of the fort, fronted by a wide verandah, immediately caught the eye of the visitor.
And as he stood a moment handfast with the youth, his conscience troubled him a little and he said: "Ian, Ian, thou art a wise lad about this world's business, but thou must not be forgetting that there is another world after this." "I do not forget that, sir." "Bishop Hedley is a greater and wiser man than all the railway nabobs thou hast spoken of." "I think so, sir!
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