Of course, my dealings with the Council there must be carried on through the English Resident; but there is much information respecting the views of the Council with regard to Tippoo, the Nizam, and Bengal, that will be valuable for me to know." "I could not so act, your excellency, without permission from the Council; but I should imagine that they would not be averse to such an arrangement, especially as, perhaps, you would give me private information as to the state of parties, here, such as you would not care to tell their Resident." "Certainly I would do so.

They change their Residents so frequently that it would be impossible for new men to really understand the situation; which you, with your intimate knowledge of Poona, could readily grasp.

Of course the arrangement could only be temporary, as my own position is so uncertain and, in any case, my life cannot now be a long one.
"I should propose that your salary, as my private agent, be a thousand rupees a month." "I thank you much, sir; and if I stay at Bombay, and obtain the permission of the Council to correspond with you, I will readily undertake the part.

They can have little objection to the arrangement, as doubtless you have agents in Bombay, already." "Certainly I have, but these are natives, and necessarily can only send me the rumours current in the bazaars, or known generally to the public; and their news is, for the most part, worthless." "I have another favour to request," Harry said; "namely, that you will give leave of absence to Sufder, in order that he may accompany me to Bombay.

He and my old nurse could, alone, substantiate my birth and identity; and it would be necessary for them to give their evidence before some legal authority." "That I will readily do.