It was six years since he had parted from his old nurse at Bombay, and he had greatly changed since then.

He was now a tall and powerfully-built man.
"And so you are already a major, as was your dear father!" she said, after the first greetings were over.

"It seems to me but a short time since you were an infant in my arms.

But what brings you here ?" "There is going to be a general peace for some time, Soyera; and I have had enough of fighting, and am on my way home to England, where I hope to learn something about my father's and mother's families.

I have three years' leave, and as I am as rich as I could desire to be, possibly I may return here no more." "I shall grieve, Harry; but it is natural for you to do so, and I shall feel happy in the thought that you have become all your parents could have wished, and that I have been the means, in some way, of bringing this about." "In all ways, Soyera.