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A gratuity was secured to all who might be wounded in action, and it was guaranteed that their pay should go on while in hospital. Invalids were to have pensions in money and grants of land. It soon had to take the field: for Ismail Beg's loyalty, already wavering in view of an Afghan invasion, gave way entirely in the beginning of 1790 before the solicitations of the Rajput chiefs.
"There's the Afghan, and, as a highlander, he despises all the dwellers in Hindoostan-with the exception of the Sikh, whom he hates as cordially as the Sikh hates him. The Hindu loathes Sikh and Afghan, and the Rajput that's a little lower down across this yellow blot of desert has a strong objection, to put it mildly, to the Maratha who, by the way, poisonously hates the Afghan.
Towards the end of the year his wife, whom he had sent to reside at Síkrí, gave birth to a son at the house of the saint, who is known in history as the Emperor Jahángír, though called after the saint by the name of Salím. His mother was a Rájpút princess of Jodhpur.
We who had thought ourselves alone in all the sea were but one ship among a number. The ships proceeded after this manner see, I draw a pattern with foam boiling about each. Ahead of us were many ships bearing British troops cavalry, infantry and guns. To our right and left and behind us were Sikh, Gurkha, Dogra, Pathan, Punjabi, Rajput many, many men, on many ships.
The distance between his stand and the breach was, as the crow flies, but short, for the river alone ran between the two. By the light of the torches, Akbar easily recognised the Rájpút general, and believing him to be within distance, he fired and killed him on the spot.
"And you don't know his whereabouts?" "No, I'm sorry. I didn't suppose his whereabouts mattered a damn to any one." The stern old Rajput smiled. It did his heart good to hear the familiar slang phrases again. "Whether it matters a damn as you say depends on whether he is the undesirable I have in mind. Quite young; but much influence, and a bad record.
And you know that there were others there, of my own people, who might have done what you did, and did not!" "But, hang it all! Why drag up a little thing like this?" "Because, sahib, I might have no other opportunity, and " "Well? And what?" "And the Rajput boy whom you carried was my son!" The finding of a remount for Juggut Khan was not so troublesome as might have been supposed.
I came to myself on the verandah below, fanned by fresh breezes, and as suddenly as I had fainted above in the impure air of the cell. When I recovered completely the first thing I saw was a powerful figure clad in white, with a raven black Rajput beard, anxiously leaning over me.
The only real sensation that she felt even when a tall, lean Rajput flung her across his shoulder, ran with her and dropped her down through a square hole into stifling darkness was a longing for Bill Brown, her Bill, the one man in the world who could surely stop the butchery. The others prayed. But she refused to pray. She felt angry not prayerful!
"A letter to the Company's Resident at Abu, reporting to him that Hindoo widows are still compelled in this city to burn themselves to death above their husbands' funeral pyres." The Rajput grinned. "Does the Resident sahib not know it, then?" "There will be no chance of his not knowing should my report reach him!" "I will see, sahib, what can be done, then, in the matter.
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