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Updated: May 1, 2025
"I have a few pice," he said, "but must be careful till I get my pay." As soon as night fell all turned in, as they were to start at daylight. "Here is room for you at my side, comrade," the sergeant said. "You had better get to sleep, as soon as you can. Of course, you have your blanket with you?" "Yes, sergeant."
I gave her a little bread, wishing her well away: but alack! no sooner had she gone than my child sickened and hath not recovered since." The Syed then asks her to drop a pice upon a paper covered with magic squares; which being done, he consults a thumb-marked manuscript and decides that the child is a victim of the Evil Eye.
Numbers of the smaller children also bestride the gentle little bovines, but the rest of the party are afoot. The ruling passion of the Romany, the wide world over, asserts itself at my approach; brown-bodied youngsters with sparkling, coal-black eyes race after the bicycle, holding out their hands and begging, "pice, sahib, pice, pice."
Higher up, approaching the plateau where were the ruins of a thousand gorgeous shrines, both sides of the pathway were lined by mendicants who sat cross-legged, in front of them a little mat for the receipt of alms cowries, pice, silver; the mendicants muttering incessantly "Jae, Jae, Omkar!"
The man is called in, and succeeds in disposing of some of his wares, ribbons, laces, or silks; and the ayah, besides having obliged the lady and the pedler, enjoys a small modicum of satisfaction herself who would grudge it? in pocketing the dustôôree a discount of two pice, or half an anna on each rupee. There are ayahs of various castes.
A youth of whom the most distinguished father might be proud. But but " "Will you never finish?" "But by the force of circumstances, over which he had no control, he became in early days a smuggler, and rose to an eminent rank in that profession." "I do not care two pice for that; though I should have been sorry if he had not risen."
They were fools, these people unfit to cut the toe-nails of a Marwari from Pali. I lent money to them all. A little, very little only here a pice and there a pice. God is my witness that I am a poor man! The money is all with Ram Dass may his sons turn Christian, and his daughter be a burning fire and a shame in the house from generation to generation!
Each occupant of the room has been provided with a tiny glass of weak opium-water from the large China jar on the landlord's desk, paying a pice per glass for the beverage.
Ere the company departs each member subscribes a pice for the story-teller, who in this way earns about forty pice a day, no inconsiderable income in truth for the mere retail of second-hand fables: and then with a word of peace to the landlord the men troop slowly forth to their homes.
Her humility screamed its violation, its debasement of her race; she woke the impulse to screen her and hurry her away as if she were a woman walking in her sleep. She had on her arm a sheaf of the War Cry. This was another indignity; she offered them right and left, and no one had a pice for her except one man, a sailor who refused the paper.
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