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Updated: June 11, 2025
There was no conversation between Harry and Sufder on the way back to the hotel; Harry saying that he would tell the news when Soyera joined them, otherwise he would have to go through it twice. They rode slowly through the streets, and Soyera arrived a few minutes after them. "Now," Harry said, "we will go up to my room and talk the matter over. "Mr.
"Welcome back, little sister!" and he raised his voice, and called, "Anundee!" A young woman, two or three and twenty years of age, came to the door. "Wife," he said, "this is my sister Soyera, of whom you have often heard me speak. "Soyera, this is my wife. We have been married six years; but come in, and let us talk things over. "You have come home for good, I hope," he said.
Many were the scrubbings Harry had to undergo, during the next few days; and his hair and face were nearly restored to their proper colour when Soyera returned, one evening, with a coolie carrying a trunk of some size. It contained the whole outfit for a boy: one dark suit, and four of white nankeen; with a stock of shirts, underclothing, and shoes.
"One would certainly be the attire of a trader, in good circumstances. I can't think, at present, of any other." "I should say the dress of a Brahmin might be useful," Soyera suggested. "Yes, that would give me an entry, unquestioned, to Nana, or to any other person of importance."
"I do not know what to think," the young woman said; "but Soyera has seen much, and is a wise woman, and what she says are no idle words. To us it seems impossible, when we know that the Mahrattas can place a hundred thousand horsemen in the field; but I own that, from what we know of the English, it might be better for people like us to have such masters."
He received his master with the greatest joy, for he had feared he would be captured before leaving the camp. They continued their journey to Jooneer, where they halted for the night. Sufder went to his house, and Harry rode out to the farm. As Harry drew rein at the farm Soyera ran out, followed by her brother and Anundee, with cries of joy at his unexpected return.
"I shall grieve, Harry; but it is natural for you to do so, and I shall feel happy in the thought that you have become all your parents could have wished, and that I have been the means, in some way, of bringing this about." "In all ways, Soyera. I owe not only my life, but all that I am, to you. Had you been without friends, I would have taken you to England.
However, I will do what I can for you, for the sake of my mother's sister and of our kinship." On the way up the hills Soyera stopped, several times, to pick berries. When they halted she went aside and pounded them, and then boiled them in some water in a lota a copper vessel Sufder lent her for the purpose, and dyed the child's head and body with it, producing a colour corresponding to her own.
"As to your savings, Soyera, you are not likely to see them again, for we shall make a clean sweep of Bombay. However, twenty rupees will be useful to you, and would keep you for three or four months, if you needed but, as you are going to my wife, you will not want them. "Take this dagger.
"Well, now let us to dinner," Ramdass broke in. "I am hungry, and want to be off again. There is much to do in the fields." The woman took a pot off the embers of a wood fire, and poured its contents into a dish. The meal consisted of a species of pulse boiled with ghee, with peppers and other condiments added. "And how did you like being among the English, Soyera?"
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