Besides, you have to remember that you have not gone unpunished.

Had it not been for your feeling, after you had, as you believed, killed me, you never would have stood and let that Sepoy shoot you; so that all the pain that you have been going through, and may still have to go through before you are quite cured, is a punishment that you have yourself accepted.

After a man has once been punished for a crime there is an end of it, and you need grieve no further over it; but it will be a lesson that I hope and believe you will never forget.
"Hackett, who has been my soldier servant for the last five years, was killed in the fight in the Kaiser Bagh.

If you like, when you rejoin, I shall apply for you in his stead.

It will make your work a good deal easier for you, and I should like to have the son of one of my old tenants about me." The man burst into tears.
"There, don't let's say anything more about it," Mallett went on, taking the thin hand of the soldier in his.