[At the Point of the Bayonet by G. A. Henty]@TWC D-Link bookAt the Point of the Bayonet CHAPTER 2: A Strange Bringing Up 8/48
They believe in one God, only; and in his Son who, like Buddha, was a great saint, and went about doing good. I will tell you all I know of Him, for my mistress frequently spoke to me of Him; and hoped, I think, that in time I should accept Him, as she did.
When you join your people, it is as necessary that you should be of their religion, as of their race;" and so, in time, Harry learned at least the elements of Christianity. As usual he had been, at the age of six, marked, like Soyera, with three perpendicular lines on the forehead--the sign of the worshippers of Vishnu. "You are twelve years old now, Harry," Soyera said to the boy, one day.
"Now I must do what I have concluded, after a talk with Ramdass and Sufder, is the best thing for you.
We have agreed that it will be better that you should not join your countrymen, and claim to be the son of Major Lindsay, until you are a man.
I do not know what they would do with you.
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