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Updated: June 13, 2025
It is the son of my dear master and mistress, both of whom were killed, three days ago, by bands of which Sufder commanded one who attacked them suddenly, by night." "What! Is the child white?" Ramdass asked, in a tone of alarm. "It is not white, because I have stained the skin; but it is the child of English parents. I will tell you how it happened."
Now, Ramdass will take you out for a walk for two or three hours, so that you can get accustomed to them. I should not like you to look awkward, when you go with me to Mrs. Sankey's, tomorrow." The interview next day was altogether satisfactory.
"I am glad, indeed, to find you here, Sufder; in the first place, because it is always a pleasure to meet a good friend; and in the second, because you can take Soyera back with you, and place her with Ramdass." "But why should I leave here, Harry?" "Because, mother, I am to start for Madras in three weeks; and may be, for aught I know, away for a year or more.
This he was firmly determined not to do, in any matter save in thwarting any designs Scindia might have. That was a public duty. By this time, he had learnt much of the events that were passing. Ramdass and the other ryots of his acquaintance regarded Nana Furnuwees as the guardian of the country.
"I should not be comfortable if I were not with you, sahib." "Well, Abdool, we are going with the Bombay regiment which starts tomorrow, and shall travel through Central India to Surat. There I shall leave them in the Concan, and cross the Ghauts to Jooneer, and pay a visit to Soyera, Ramdass, and Sufder, and see them all comfortably settled; and then go down to Bombay.
Once a week he was re-stained; and even his playmates, the two sons of Ramdass, believed that he was, like themselves, a young Mahratta. They knew that, sometimes, their aunt talked to the child for hours in a strange language; but she led them to believe it was the dialect of Bombay, which she thought it might be useful for him to learn.
Ramdass has often told me as much as he knew of these matters, but it all seemed to me to be confusion; and the only thing I could understand was that they were always intriguing against each other, instead of putting all their forces in the field, and fighting it out fairly, and so deciding who was to be the chief lord of the Mahrattas."
He was already far stronger than the sons of Ramdass, although these were now young men. Anxious to, at once, exercise his muscles and gain in skill, he now attached himself to a famous shikaree who, seeing the boy's strength and courage, took him as an assistant when he went on excursions among the hills.
"As it is Sufder's order, of course I must take you in," she said, "but when he returns, I shall tell him that I do not want another woman and child in the house. Why do you not go to your own people? As you are Sufder's cousin, you must be the sister of Ramdass. Why should you not go to him?" "I will gladly do so, if you will tell me where he lives." "He has a small farm.
As usual he had been, at the age of six, marked, like Soyera, with three perpendicular lines on the forehead the sign of the worshippers of Vishnu. "You are twelve years old now, Harry," Soyera said to the boy, one day. "Now I must do what I have concluded, after a talk with Ramdass and Sufder, is the best thing for you.
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