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I begin to grow acquainted with Colonel Coote, and figure him packing up chests of diamonds, and sending them to his wife against the King's wedding thunder go to the Tower guns, and behold, Broglie and Soubise are totally defeated; if the mob have not much stronger heads and quicker conceptions than I have, they will conclude my Lord Granby is become nabob.
Head steward draw wages for him, and put wages in his own pocket. He very well satisfied." On Wednesday he came and told Mark that he had arranged to sail in the Nabob, and was to go on board early the next morning. He seemed a great deal affected, and Mark and Millicent were equally sorry to part with the faithful fellow.
A young man, Tasman by name, who had been scornfully rejected by a Dutch nabob as the suitor of his daughter, resolved to prove himself worthy of the lady of his heart.
That huge, bronzed Tartar who was laughing so loudly in the front of your box." "It was the Nabob, Monsieur le Duc. The famous Jansoulet, about whom people are talking so much just now." "I ought to have guessed it. The whole house was watching him. The actresses played for him alone. You know him? What sort of man is he?" "I know him. That is to say, I attend him professionally.
Here the conversation took a new direction, and, after some time, the silence of sleep ensued. Who, thought I, is this nabob who counts his dollars by half-millions, and on whom it seems as if some fraud was intended to be practised? Amidst their wariness and subtlety, how little are they aware that their conversation has been overheard!
"I don't think we meddled with your affairs any further than to ask if Laud Cavendish had the use of the Juno for taking care of her," explained Captain Patterdale. "It don't concern you. Laud Cavendish does have the use of the Juno for taking care of her." "Indeed!" exclaimed the good nabob, glancing at Donald. "Indeed!" sneered the wicked nabob. "You needn't indeed anything I say.
And they pounce together upon the Nabob, lead him to a divan, force him to sit down, and squeeze him between them with a savage little laugh that seems to mean: "What are we going to do to him?" Extract money from him, as much of it as possible. It must be had in order to float the Caisse Territorial, which has been aground for years, buried in sand to her masthead.
For the person appointed to execute one of the offices which had been filled by Mahomed Reza Khân did soon find that the eunuchs of Munny Begum began to employ their power with great superiority and insolence in all the concerns of government and the administration of justice, and did endeavor to dispose of the offices relative to the same for their corrupt purposes, and to rob the Nabob's servants of their due allowances; and in his letter of the 1st September, 1778, he sent a complaint to the board, stating, "that certain bad men had gained an ascendency over the Nabob's temper, by whose instigation he acts"; and after complaining of the slights he received from the Nabob, he adds: "Thus they cause the Nabob to treat me, sometimes with indignity, at others with kindness, just as they think proper to advise him; their view is, that, by compelling me to displeasure at most unworthy treatment, they may force me either to relinquish my station, or to join with them, and act by their advice, and appoint creatures of their recommendation to the different offices, from which they might draw profit to themselves."
Bristow, the Resident at the court of the Nabob Vizier, several letters, of the 9th and 20th of February, and of the 6th of March and 6th of April, 1783, in order that some steps should be taken for his return and establishment in his own country.
Being asked, What account was given of them? he said, He cannot tell; everything remained in the possession of the Nabob.
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