For so young a man, I have never seen a greater promise of strength.
"It seems to me that your face is not unknown to me.

Where do you come from ?" "From Jooneer, your excellency, where my people are cultivators but, having no liking for that life, I learned the trade of a shopkeeper, and obtained permission to travel to your camp, and to try my fortune in disposing of some of my master's goods." As Jooneer was but some sixty miles from Toka, the explanation was natural enough and, as the former town lay near to the main road from Scindia's dominions in Candeish, it afforded an explanation of Balloba's partial recognition of his face.
"And as a merchant, you can read and write, I suppose ?" the latter went on.
"Yes, your highness, sufficiently well for my business." "Well, think it over.

You can scarcely find your present life more suitable to your taste than that of a cultivator, and the army is the proper place for a young fellow with spirit, and with strength and muscles such as you have.

If you like to enlist in my own bodyguard, and your conduct be good, I will see that you have such promotion as you deserve." "Your excellency is kind, indeed," Harry said, humbly.

"Before I accept your kind offer, will you permit me to return to Jooneer to account for my sales to my employer, and to obtain permission of my father to accept your offer; which would indeed be greatly more to my taste than the selling of goods." "It is well," Balloba said, and then broke off: "Ah! I know now why I remember your face.