19/33 They can do what they like in Rajputana and Bengal and Bombay. But on the Frontier I want things to go well. Oh, how I want them to go well!" Luffe had grown very pale, and the sweat glistened upon his forehead. "I will remember what you say." "Yes, remember it; write it out, so that you may remember it, and din it into their ears at Government House," said Luffe. "You take these boys, you give them Oxford, a season in London--did you ever have a season in London when you were twenty-one, Dewes? |