Dick laughed.
"Of course, it comes naturally to you," he said, "but I feel as if I were dressed up for a masquerade." The other suits were similar in style, but the tunics were of richly-figured damask, instead of cloth of gold.
Half an hour later they started for the Palace, a coolie carrying a box containing their second suits, and the simple dresses they had worn on their arrival.

Dick could not help smiling, at the manner in which the people in the streets obsequiously made way for them.
"I shall be very glad," he said, as they traversed the space that divided the town from the fort, "when we have got over the next day or two, and have settled down a bit.

It all seems so uncertain, and I have not the most remote idea of what our duties are likely to be.
Hitherto, we have always had some definite plan of action, and had only ourselves to depend upon.

Now, everything seems doubtful and uncertain.

However, I suppose we shall soon settle down; and we have the satisfaction of knowing that, if things do not turn out well, we can go off to our good friend Pertaub, and get out of the place altogether." On arriving at the Palace, they inquired for the chamberlain.
"He is expecting you, my lord," one of the attendants said, coming forward.