When one has half a dozen men to dine with one at the club, one gives the butler notice and chooses the wine, and one knows that it will be all right; but it is a very different thing when you have to go into the details yourself.
Ordinarily I leave it entirely to Rumzan and the cook, and I am bound to say they do very well, but this is a different matter." "We will talk it over with them together, Major.

You can seem to consult me, but it must come from you to them, or else you will be getting their backs up.

Thank goodness, Indian servants don't give themselves the airs English ones do; but human nature is a good deal the same everywhere, and the first great rule, if you want any domestic arrangements to go off well, is to keep the servants in good temper." "We none of us like to be interfered with, Doctor." "A wise man is always ready to be taught," the Doctor said sententiously.
"Well, there are exceptions, Doctor.

I remember, soon after I joined, a man blew off two of his fingers.

A young surgeon who was here wanted to amputate the hand; he was just going to set about it when a staff surgeon came in and said that it had better not be done, for that natives could not stand amputations.