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The jackal kept his word and went to a city where a Raja lived. There he sat down on the bank of one of the Raja's tanks. To this tank the servants from the palace brought the pots and dishes to be washed, and to this tank also came the Rani and princesses to bathe.
The durbar was hastily broken up, with the excuse that the Rajah must be ill, and the Rani and her crowd of chattering excited women conducted back, with all the usual paraphernalia of sheets held before and behind and on either side of them, to their own apartments.
Yet, if she is arrested, and the whole tale comes out in the newspapers, think of the disgrace to my family." Mother Cockleshell nodded. "That's as true as true, my golden rye," she said pondering. "And I wish not to hurt you and the rani, who was kind to me. I go away," she rose to her feet briskly, "and I think. What will you do?" "I can't say," said Lambert, doubtfully and irresolutely.
Gerrard sought vainly for a suitably self-deprecatory reply, but the Rajah was equal to the occasion, and rendered his disjointed murmurs into a polite desire that he might serve as a sturdy elephant to carry the Rani and her son over a flooded river. The voice spoke again, and Partab Singh turned to Gerrard. "Is my friend yet wedded?" Gerrard shook his head.
The local Durbar, seeing the course things were taking, adapted itself to circumstances with great readiness, and paid its respects to the Rani Gulab Kur through her curtain, having purged itself of the irreconcilables who demanded an instant massacre and an open defiance of the English and of their allies at Ranjitgarh.
But still Sahde Goala paid no attention. Then Chandaini Rani got angry and by leaning the basket against the murup tree managed to get it on to her head again and carried it home, and from that time murup trees grow slanting. Directly she had taken the rice and relish to the house she set off again to run away to her mother.
I walked on without so much as glancing at him, but as I approached the door he put himself in my way saying: "Not that way, sir." "Not that way! Why?" "The Rani Mother is there." "Oh, very well. Tell your Rani Mother that Sandip Babu wants to see her." "That cannot be, sir. It is against orders." I felt highly indignant. "I order you!" I said in a raised voice. "Go and announce me."
After a few days the maidservant asked permission of her mistress to play a trick on the Raja, by which they should at least get sufficient food. The Rani assented and the maidservant went off to the Raja and told him that the wife whom he had turned out was five months with child, and that it was a disgrace that one who was to be the mother of his heir should have to beg her bread.
"What does the opposition party consist of?" "Little Kharrak Singh and his mother, whom Sher Singh wishes to become suttee." Charteris whistled. "And which is more important to bring home the Rajah's death to Sher Singh, or to save the Rani?" "For Kharrak Singh's sake, to save his mother, undoubtedly. But now you are here, I hope to do both." "We shall see about that.
They were silent, each weighing the force of resistance that could be made; and this the Rani knew even as he. "It cannot be," she said; "the very ashes of the dead would shudder to hear. Shall the Queens of India be made the sport of the barbarians?" Her husband looked upon her fair face. She could feel his heart labor beneath her ear. "True, wife; but the barbarians are strong.
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