But Colonel Starr was firm, and he had the unanswerable argument of three hundred well-armed men and two nine-pounders, which Maun Rao would have to meet with Petroff Gortschakin's cartridges.

After duly and sadly reflecting upon this, the Maharajah concluded that he would give up ee-Wobbis's murderers--one of them at any rate--and let himself be arranged, at all events for the present.

Afterwards he would say to Maun Rao that it was only for the present.

He summoned all his politeness to his aid, and said in the end that such was his admiration for the English Lord Sahib in Calcutta, such his friendship and respect, that he would welcome any one who came to Lalpore in his name.
'Accompanied by a small force,' added Colonel Starr in the vernacular, and the Maharajah also added, while Maun Rao behind him ground his teeth, 'Accompanied by a small force.' 'One word more,' said the Maharajah, 'and the durbar is ended.

The opium pledge will appear, and we will drink it with you.