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The Story of Sonny Sahib

CHAPTER I
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Pack everything there is, and hasten.

Do you understand, foolish one ?' [2] 'Enough.' 'Very good said the ayah submissively, and watched the doctor out of sight.

Then she insisted--holding the rupees, she could insist--that the goat-keeper should bring his goat into the hut to milk it; there was more safety, Tooni thought, in the hut.

While he milked it Tooni sat upon the ground, hugging her knees, and thought.
The memsahib had said nothing all this time, had known nothing.
For two days the memsahib had been, as Tooni would have said, without sense--had lain on the bed in the corner quietly staring at the wall, where the looking-glass hung, making no sign except when she heard the Nana Sahib's guns.

Then she sat up straight, and laughed very prettily and sweetly.


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