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Holland exclaimed, as he came up with a deep salaam; "I am, indeed, glad to see you again. I knew you were alive, for my brother mentioned you when he wrote last year." Rajbullub was evidently greatly pleased at the recognition. "I think I should have known you, lady," he said; "but eighteen years makes more changes in the young than in the old. Truly I am glad to see you again.
Therefore I propose that you shall at once accustom yourself to the attire, which you can do in our apartments of an evening. The ranee and the boys will be able to correct your first awkwardness, and to teach you much. "After a week or two, you must stain your face, arms, and legs, and go out with Rajbullub in the evening.
"And you will also find a hearty friend in my father, Rajbullub," Surajah said. "He is principal officer in the Rajah's household, and will treat you as a brother, and your daughter as if she were my sister." Then they returned to the Palace, where they had a final talk over the route that it would be best to pursue.
Here and there were small pavilions, whose roofs of sculptured stone were supported by shafts of marble. The foliage of shrubs and trees alike was new to Dick, and the whole scene delighted him. Half an hour later, his two cousins joined him. "We wondered what had become of you," Doast said, "and should not have found you, if Rajbullub had not told us that he saw you come out here. "Come in, now.
As it is, no one outside our own circle ever sees you about with me or the boys, except in your European dress, and Rajbullub tells me that, in no single instance while you have been in disguise, has any suspicion been excited, or question asked by the people of various classes with whom you and he converse in the streets."
These had previously been regarded, by the natives, as a far less warlike people than the French, who were expected to drive them, in a very short time, out of the country. Rajbullub was able to point out to him every spot associated with the stirring events of that time.
I was to tell you that his heart rejoiced, at the thought of seeing you again, and that his love for you is as warm as it was when you were a boy and girl together." "This is my son, Rajbullub. He has often heard me speak of you." "Yes, indeed," Dick said, warmly. "I heard how you saved her from being bitten by a cobra, when she was a little girl." "Ah!
The young lord speaks our tongue," Rajbullub said, with great pleasure. "We wondered whether you would have taught it to him. If it had not been that you always wrote to my lord in our language, we should have thought that you, yourself, would surely have forgotten it, after dwelling so long among the white sahibs." "No, we always speak it when together, Rajbullub.
When Dick came to the incident of the ladies of the harem presenting them, in Tippoo's presence, with the two caskets, Mrs. Holland broke in: "You did not say anything about that in your letter, Dick. Let me see your casket. Where is it?" "It is in one of the saddlebags," Dick said. "They are in my room," Rajbullub corrected. "Surajah brought them up at once."
Rajbullub was much surprised at the lad's interest in all these little matters, which, as it seemed to him, were not worth a thought on the part of his lord's nephew. "You will never have to buy these things, Sahib," he said. "Why should you trouble about them?" "I am going to be over here some time, Rajbullub, and it is just as well to learn as much as one can.
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