I suppose it is the way in which they are brought up and trained." "Ages of tyranny have made them supple and deceitful," the Doctor said, "but of course less so here than among the Bengallies, who, being naturally unwarlike and cowardly, have always been the slaves of some master or other.
"You evidently don't like the Nana, Miss Hannay.

I am rather glad you don't, for he is no great favorite of mine, though he is so generally popular in the station here.

I don't like him because it is not natural that he should be so friendly with us.

We undoubtedly, according to native notions, robbed him of one of the finest positions in India by refusing to acknowledge his adoption.

We have given him a princely revenue, but that, after all, is a mere trifle to what he would have had as Peishwa.