The kingdom of Baithopoor is too inconveniently situated and too full of mosquitoes to attract the English.

Besides, there are more roses than rubies there just now." "True, and that question interests me closely, for the old man owes me a great deal of money.

It was I who pulled him through the last famine." "Not a very profitable investment, I should think.

Shall you ever see a rupee of that money again ?" "Yes; he will pay me; though I did not think so a week ago, or indeed yesterday.

I lent him the means of feeding his people and saving many of them from actual death by starvation, because there are so many Mussulmans among them, though the maharajah is a Hindoo.