When dogs fight dogs, the wild boar ravages the land." "It is true enough," the other said.

"As a nation we might have ruled Asia but, divided among ourselves, wasting our forces against each other, we have allowed the stranger to wrest province after province from us.
"Now, I will go out and see that the men have all got quarters, and that the people of the village are feeding them, as they should.

In truth, we have been having a bad time, lately." "Yes, indeed; I thought myself lucky, sometimes, to get a handful of grain after twenty hours in the saddle.
"It cannot be helped, comrade.

We must drive the strangers back towards Allahabad; recover Benares, Agra, and Delhi; and then we shall be able to rest in peace, for a time, before we settle accounts with Scindia, and the others who have made a disgraceful peace with the English.

We shall never have peace in the Deccan till we sack and destroy Bombay, and force the last Englishman to take to his ships." Harry started with Abdool before daybreak the next morning and, riding all day, reached Delhi late in the evening.