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His look wavered in dismay between the girl and the photograph in his hand her photograph, which had been stolen from him aboard the Poonah. She extended her hand imperiously. "Give that to me, please, Mr. Amber," she insisted. He surrendered it without a word. "Mr. Amber!" she cried in a voice that quivered with wonder and resentment.
VIII. That as in the increase of the revenue the said Mahomed Reza Khân was employed as a person likely to improve the same without detriment to the people, so, when the state of any province seemed to require a remission, he was employed as a person disposed to the relief of the people without fraud to the revenue; and this was expressed by the President and Council as follows, with relation to the remissions granted in the province of Bahar: "That the general knowledge of Mahomed Reza Khân, in all matters relative to the dewanny revenues, induced us to consent to such deductions being made from the general state of that province at the last poonah as may be deemed irrecoverable, or such as may procure an immediate relief and encouragement to the ryots in the future cultivation of their lands."
He seems omnipresent!" laughed the captain, as they whirled by. "When are they off for Poonah?" "I suppose to-day, but perhaps not till night," returned Faith. "Did you ever see anything like that? If you call this Englishy, Hope." "No, I don't. Things are beginning to look quite Indiany, since we left those fine new streets, I confess."
As it was sunset the wild yet mournful sound of tom-tom and kettle and cymbal and reed suddenly struck up. I could have shut my eyes and fancied myself in camp again in the desert, with the wild sword-dances being performed by the Arabs. The following day at evening we left Poonah for Hyderabad. We travelled all night and next day, and arrived towards evening.
"How long have I?" he was asking. "Not long, I'm afraid, old chap." His lips closed with a queer distressed look. He was sorry to die. "How long?" he asked again. "About an hour." But I knew it was less. I attended to others, thinking all the while of poor Noon. His home life was little known, but there was some story about an engagement at Poonah the previous warm weather.
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