16/35 They have fought by us side by side in every battlefield in India, and have done as well as we have. I don't see what they should rise for. I don't even see whose interest it is to bring a rising about, but I do know that if they rise we shall have a terrible time of it. You won't take another peg? I shall be at the hospital by half past six, and shall be in at half past eight to breakfast. |