'Tooni, why do you pinch me ?' His Highness looked disconcerted for a moment.

As a matter of fact he had known all that Tooni or Sonny Sahib could tell him about themselves for three years, but he considered it more dignified to appear as if he knew nothing.
'This is a child of the mlechas,' said the Maharajah, which was not a very polite way of saying that he was English.
'Protector of the poor, yes.' 'Account to me for him.

How old is he ?' 'Seven years, great King.' 'And two months, Tooni-ji.

Your Highness, may I sit down ?' 'As old as the Folly.'[5] [5] Native term for the Mutiny.
'He came of the Folly, Hazur.

His mother died by the sepoys in Cawnpore, his father--also,' said Tooni, for she feared to be blamed for not having found Sonny Sahib's father.