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We have put up with the insults of the Burmese for so long that we might just as well have waited for the favourable season, before we began our operations in earnest." Accordingly, on the following day Stanley started south for Ramoo and, on arriving there, took charge of the trading operations.
"But you will find things changed, Ramoo, since you left; while here, you know, we all regard you as a friend rather than as a servant." "You are all very kind and good, sahib.
As soon as Captain Noton learned that the Burmese had crossed the river, he sent news of the fact to Chittagong, with a request that reinforcements should be at once sent to him; and then moved out with his force from Ramoo, to ascertain the strength of the enemy. The Burmese were seen upon some hills, where they were constructing stockades.
"Yes, but it does not affect us, though it does affect Ramoo. Now clear your brow, dear, and dismiss the subject from your mind, else our guests will fancy that our marriage has not been altogether so satisfactory as they had hoped." "As if they could think such a thing as that, Mark," she said indignantly. "But there is the sound of wheels; it is Mr. Chetwynd's gig."
Ramoo is getting old; he was thirty when he entered the service of the Colonel, sahib; he is fifty now; he will go home to end his days; he has saved enough to live in comfort, and with what the lawyer sahib told him your father has left him he will be a rich man among his own people."
Although not inclined at the present time to agree with Mark in anything, Millicent could not but acknowledge that it were best that Ramoo should not be urged further to reconsider his determination, and she also fell in with his proposal that they should go up to London for a week, and then go down to Weymouth for a time, after which they would be guided by circumstances.
He was specially attached to the native levy and, soon acquiring their words of command, assisted its officers in drilling it into something like order. Early in May a Burmese division, 8000 strong, crossed the Naaf and established itself at Rutnapullung, fourteen miles south of Ramoo.
Ramoo had already sailed. On his arrival in town he had said that he should, if possible, arrange to go out as a steward. "Many men of my color who have come over here with their masters go back in that way," he said, in answer to Mark's remonstrances. "It is much more comfortable that way than as a passenger.
Supposing that the two figures approaching were Burmese deserters, they did not fire; and Stanley and his companion were soon among them. They were soldiers of one of the Bengal regiments; and Stanley, to their surprise, addressed them in their own language. "I am an Englishman," he said. "I am one of the prisoners whom they took, at Ramoo, and have escaped from their hands.
"I happened to be at Ramoo at the time, looking after some goods of my uncle, who carries on a considerable trade on the coast; and as I talk the language, and there were very few who did so, I volunteered to act as an officer with the native levy.
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