"The child will come to speak Mahratta and, when he is stained, none will guess that he is English.

In time, I may be able to restore him to his own people." The other shook his head.
"That is not likely," he said, "for before many weeks, we shall have driven them into the sea." "Then he must remain a Mahratta," she said, "until he is able to make his way to join the English in Madras or Calcutta." "You are an obstinate woman, and always have been so; else you would not have left your people to go to be servant among the whites.

However, I will do what I can for you, for the sake of my mother's sister and of our kinship." On the way up the hills Soyera stopped, several times, to pick berries.

When they halted she went aside and pounded them, and then boiled them in some water in a lota--a copper vessel--Sufder lent her for the purpose, and dyed the child's head and body with it, producing a colour corresponding to her own.
The party, which was composed of men from several towns and villages, broke up the next morning.
"Have you money ?" Sufder asked her, as she was about to start alone on her journey.
"Yes; my savings were all lodged for me, by Major Lindsay, with some merchants at Bombay; but I have twenty rupees sewn up in my garments." "As to your savings, Soyera, you are not likely to see them again, for we shall make a clean sweep of Bombay.

However, twenty rupees will be useful to you, and would keep you for three or four months, if you needed but, as you are going to my wife, you will not want them.
"Take this dagger.