Ranjoor Singh was as much dependent on good-will as if we had had the choosing of him.

So he had to create it, and that which has once been lost, for whatever reason, is doubly and redoubly hard to make again.

He did what he did in spite of us, although I tried to help.
Of us seven, first in seniority came I; and as I have tried already to make clear I was Ranjoor.

Singh's man (not that he believed it altogether yet).

If he had ordered me to make black white, I would have perished in the effort to obey; but I had yet to prove that.
Next in order to me was Gooja Singh, and although I have spared the regiment's shame as much as possible, I doubt not that man's spirit has crept out here and there between my words--as a smell creeps from under coverings.