The troopers, also, were all well treated." "You have received a great deal of misplaced commiseration," one of the officers said.

"We have all thought of you as having been tortured to death, either by Holkar or Ameer Khan; and now we find you have been better housed and better fed than we have.
"And you are going back again, I suppose, with the chief's answer ?" "Yes; I must not tell you the conditions, but I think I can say it is certain that the rajah will not hesitate a moment in accepting them." "Well, he deserves to be let off leniently, if only for his treatment of you and your men.

It is a contrast, indeed, to what has generally happened to officers who have fallen into the hands of any of these native princes." There was a general talk until an aide-de-camp came in, and asked Harry to accompany him to the general's tent.
"There is the draft of the treaty," the latter said.

"I hope that there will be no delay in returning a prompt answer.

I want either yes or no.