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Forty-one years in India

CHAPTER XXX
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Pour toutes les principales choses les reponses seraient satisfaisantes, soyez-en assure.
'Faites en sorte de me repondre sans delai afin que je ne sois pas retenu a Calcutta.
'Presentez mes compliments respectueux.
'Rappelez-moi au souvenir de Baba Sahib, et croyez moi, 'Votre bien devoue 'A.

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'Mon adresse a Chandernagore, "Care of Mesdames Albert." 'N.B .-- Mais ecrivez-moi a _Calcutta_, car je serai chaque jour la, en chemin de fer, je fais le trajet en 20 minutes.

Si vous avez quelque chose de presse a me communiquer vous le pouvez faire par telegraph en Anglais seulement.
'A.L.' 'Chandernagore, '_April 9, 1857._ 'MON CHER AZIMULA KHAN, 'J'ai tout arrange, _j'apporterai une lettre_, et elle sera satisfaisante _cette lettre_ me sera donnee le 14 et le 15 je partirai pour Cawnpore.

Mes respects a son Altesse.
'Votre tout devoue 'A.

LAFONT.'] [Footnote 4: Flogging was re-introduced in 1845.] [Footnote 5: This does not include the bodies of armed and trained police, nor the lascars attached to the Artillery as fighting men.
These amounted to many thousands.] [Footnote 6: In a letter to Lord Canning, which Sir Henry Lawrence wrote on the 9th May, 1857, he gave an interesting account of a conversation he had had with a Brahmin Native officer of the Oudh Artillery, who was most persistent in his belief that the Government was determined to make the people of India Christians.


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