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Updated: August 15, 2024
For a few minutes no one came forward, but at last a pair of sleek mules, handsomely caparisoned, with a richly adorned palankeen slung between them, the identical equipage of the maharanee which had been harboured in my home, emerged from the crowd, and advanced at a grave pace toward the royal dais.
Close to the spot where the maharanee had halted were some hangings of brocade arranged, as we understood later, so that the seated and veiled figure of a woman might observe the brilliant pageantry of the day from the privacy of this purdah.
The Maharanee av Gokral-Seetarun that was me lay by the favor av Providence on the far left flank behind the dhark av a pillar carved with elephints' heads, The remainder av the palanquins was in a big half circle facing in to the biggest, fattest, an' most amazin' she-god that iver I dreamed av.
It was tempting enough to have a hand in substituting Yasmini for Gungadhura on the throne of Sialpore if the chance of doing it were real. Yasmini seemed able to read her thoughts, or at all events to guess them. "When I am maharanee," she said, "there will be an end of Gungadhura's swinishness. Moreover, promises will all be kept, unwritten ones as well as written.
That scorpion shall sting himself to death if he sees fit, with a ring of the fire of ridicule all about him and no friends to console him, and no hope nothing but disappointment and fear and rage! I will kill nobody. Yet I will be maharanee within the month!" Suddenly she grew deadly serious, her young face darkening as the sky does when a quick cloud hides the sun.
So his Military Cross and the rest was due to the Maharanee of Haliana, his sister. And Haliana is sunborn. Consider it! Consider it! The royal clans of the Rajputs derive their descent from the Sun. Do not be concerned if I do not return. I have seen all the reports of all the arrangements made for burial, etc., etc., in this country. They are entirely in accordance with our faith.
"But tell me about yourself," Tess insisted, offering the cigarettes again. And this time her guest accepted one. "My mother was the Russian wife of Bubru Singh, who had no son. I am the rightful maharanee of Sialpore, only those fools of English put my father's nephew on the throne, saying a woman can not reign. They are no wiser than apes!
'Had the Holy One come alone, I should have received him otherwise; but with this rogue, who can be too careful? 'Maharanee, said Kim, choosing as always the amplest title, 'is it my fault that none other than a Sahib a polis-Sahib called the Maharanee whose face he 'Chutt! That was on the pilgrimage. When we travel thou knowest the proverb.
The Maharanee av Gokral- Seetarun that was me lay by the favour av Providence on the far left flank behind the dhark av a pillar carved with elephints' heads. The remainder av the palanquins was in a big half circle facing in to the biggest, fattest, an' most amazin' she-god that iver I dreamed av.
"Do you think," asked Cunningham "that this brute Jaimihr really wants to make you Maharanee?" "I couldn't say," she shuddered. "You know, there have been several instances of European women having practically sold themselves to native princes; there have been stories I have heard them of English women marrying Rajahs, and regretting it.
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