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Updated: June 2, 2025
The Rani's patriotic anxiety would have appealed to Gerrard more strongly than it did had there not penetrated to him, among the bits of palace gossip which Munshi Somwar Mal contrived to pick up for his employer's benefit, the news that she was determined to secure the fief for the brother of one of her favourite attendants, and had gone so far as to promise it to him secretly.
What she could read in my face I do not know, but to me it seemed that everything was written there only too plainly. Then I did an infinitely rash thing. Affecting an easy, amused laugh I said: "All the Senior Rani's suspicions, I see, are reserved for me her fears of thieves and robbers are only a feint." The Senior Rani smiled mischievously. "You are right, sister mine.
The Rani assented to this, though with reluctance; but when Gerrard proceeded to say that the first person approached must be Sher Singh, and that the Rani's peace-offering to him must be the fief of Adamkot, she refused to hear another word, and when he persisted, intimated that the audience was at an end. He took out his watch.
The expected outbreak at Agpur had not occurred, and in a short time Cowper's leave would be up and another man would take his place as commander of the escort. Both James Antony's political forebodings and the Rani's prophecies were proving unfounded.
She had been hurt at every turn and yet had not the right to complain. And Bimala? She also had felt that the Senior Rani's claim over me was not based merely on our social connection, but went much deeper; and she was jealous of these ties between us, reaching back to our childhood. Today my heart knocked heavily against the doors of my breast.
"Aye, that I can," said the boy eagerly; "I take my own ship in and out without troubling any other to help." And with that he took hold of Rani's arm and showed him mark after mark, giving him depth of water and the like, while we listened and watched his face. Presently Olaf said: "Take command of my ship, Godwine, and lead the rest." "You will take the risk, lord king," he answered laughing.
But before he had time to listen to them, the circle of soldiers round the zenana tents opened, and a little procession came out. Between the Rani's scribe and her spiritual adviser, a large Brahmin, came Kharrak Singh, with the royal umbrella held over his head, and a guard of the Rani's own Rajput servants following him.
But paying the Rani's jointure that was a bitter pill, I grant you. I had to engage that any jewels or cash in her possession when she dies a natural death, of course, understood shall return to Sher Singh, before he would promise, and even then it was like bleeding him white.
"Then it is the Rani Sahiba who is entertaining these troops of yours? But is she not far away?" "So far away as to be between this place and the river that parts it from Agpur, sahib." "This is very serious." It was quite certain that Mr James Antony would not approve of the Rani's taking up her residence so close to her former capital, when she was supposed to be at Benares.
The higher education of the picked men proceeded side by side with the elementary training of the rank and file, while Gerrard's Granthis and the Rani's Rajputs, debarred from serving as instructors, proved most useful in representing alternately hostile armies and better disciplined allies, when something resembling manoeuvres was attempted.
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