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And if I should, on a sudden, cry out 'Hold the door, do thou draw knife and leap to the door...." "A spy, Pir Saheb?" asked the interested man. "That I shall know when next I hear his voice and, if it be he whom I think, thou shalt scrape the flesh from the bones of his face with thy knife and put his eyeballs in his mouth. But he must not die. Nay! Nay!" The Pathan smiled.
"I cannot omit to notice an instance of the violence of his temper, and its sudden changes from joy to rage. One of his blacks, a gentle Hindoo lad, of the name of Saheb, was set to manage a telegraph at one of the stations, a few yards distant from the sultan.
Saheb, with us the word of near relations is law, and their support a sacred duty. What could we, gently-bred Mahomedan girls, do in a strange city? We had always liked singing and had taken lessons in our home; and it seemed that herein lay the only chance of supporting ourselves and others.
I have met some men with such lordly souls that they would not condescend to acknowledge the salutations of menials; but you gain nothing by this kind of pride in India. They only conclude that you are not an asl, or born, saheb, and rejoice that at any rate you cannot take away their right to do obeisance to you. And you cannot.
By far the best way out of the difficulty is to accept your relative position, and tell him blandly that when you are a commissioner saheb, or a commander-in-chief, he shall be your head butler. He will understand you, and retire with a polite assurance that that day is not far distant. As soon as the result of this interview becomes known, a man of very black complexion offers his services.
Having to work without his help, I persuaded a student, who lodges near my quarters, to piece the scraps of paper together. It took him two hours to do so, and we then pasted them carefully on this sheet of foolscap. You will see, Saheb, that there are thirty-seven in all, and only three missing." The story made a deep impression on Mr.
"God knows. Black man very bad. All black man same like bad." "Then are you not a black man?" Tom smiles pleasantly and makes a fresh start. "Colonel Saheb's madam got baby." "Is it a boy or a girl?" "Girl, sar. Colonel Saheb very angry." "Why?" "He say, 'I want boy. Why always girl coming? Get very angry. Beat butler with stick." Yes, Tom is a great institution.
"It's just as I anticipated," he whispered to Pulin. "The head clerk has persuaded Henderson Saheb to bestow the post on his wife's nephew. But don't be disheartened. I will speak to our Saheb about you this very day. Come here at five to learn the result."
"Well, Subedar Major Saheb, well. Worthily of his father whose place in the pultan may he come to occupy." "Praise be to God, Sahib! Let him no more seek his father's house nor look upon his father's face again, if he please thee not in all things. And is there good news of Malet-Marsac Sahib, O Colonel Sahib?"
True stories are sometimes far stranger than those of the bazaar tale-tellers whose trade it is to invent or remember wondrous tales and stories, myths, and legends." "We have a proverb to that effect, Mir Saheb. Let us sit in the shelter of this rock and you shall tell me the story. Our eyes can work while tongue and ear play or would you sleep?" "Nahin, Sahib!
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