You can find your own way back, no doubt"; and the unobservant Commissioner rode away at a trot.
Shere Ali went forward alone down the narrowing street towards the Gate.
He was aflame with indignation.

So he was to be nothing, he was to do nothing, except to practice economy and marry--a _nigger_.

The contemptuous word rose to his mind.

Long ago it had been applied to him more than once during his early school-days, until desperate battles and black eyes had won him immunity.

Now he used it savagely himself to stigmatise his own people.