Anyhow, I do not think that I ever saw you and him together, either in a hunting field or at a dinner party; which, of course, you would have been had you both been down here at the same time.

If I remember right, you were at the same school." And then followed some gossip about mutual friends, and the letter concluded: "The general excitement is calming down a little now that Delhi is taken and the garrison of Lucknow brought off.

Of course there will be a great deal more fighting before the whole thing is over, but there is no longer any fear for the safety of India.

The Sikhs have come out splendidly.

Who would have thought it after the tremendous thrashing we gave them a few years back?
"Take care of yourself, lad.