If there are troubles in the Deccan, you will be more useful than those sahibs who do not know the language."' "I can do all that for him, but I cannot teach him to speak as English sahibs speak; and that is why I have come to you.

You have twelve hundred rupees of mine, in your hands; for I laid out nothing while I was in the sahib's service, and my mistress was very kind, and often gave me presents.

My brother, Ramdass, had five hundred rupees saved; and this he has given to me, for he, too, loves the boy.

Thus there are seventeen hundred rupees, and this I would pay for him to be, for two years, with someone where he would learn to speak English as sahibs do, so that none can say this white boy is not English.
"Then he will go back, for two or three years, to Jooneer.

He will learn to use his arms, and to ride, and to be a man, until he is of an age to come down and say: "'I am the son of Major Lindsay.'" "But if you were to tell this, at once," the Parsee said, "they would doubtless send him home, to England, to be educated." "And what would he do there, sahib?
He would have no friends, none to care for him; and while his Mahratti tongue would be of great service to him, here, it would be useless to him in his own country.
"Do not say that my plan cannot be carried out, sahib.