I am now nearly fifty, and I feel myself growing stiff.
Nothing would please me more than to be the patal of a village community, of which I hold the jagheer.

However, so long as Nana lives and retains power I shall remain a soldier; but at his death I shall serve no other master, and shall take to country life again.
"Does Nana know that you are English ?" "Yes, I have told him my story.

I was obliged to give my reasons for resigning and, as Nana has the support of the Government of Bombay, there was no risk in my doing so.
"How long will it be before I get quite rid of this colour, Sufder ?" "That I cannot say.

I should think that in a fortnight the greater part of it will have faded out, but maybe Soyera knows of something that will remove it more rapidly." Soyera, when asked, said that she knew of nothing that would remove the dye at once; but that if he washed his hands and face, two or three times a day, with a strong lye made from the ashes of a plant that grows everywhere on the plain, it would help to get rid of it.
"I will go out, tomorrow morning, and fetch some in." When she had made the lye, and mixed it with oil, it made a very strong soap.
"How do you mean to dress, to go down, Harry ?" "I have no choice; but even if I had, I should ride out of here in my best court suit, and change it for English clothes when we got down the Ghauts.

I may have to come up here again, for aught I know; and it is better, therefore, that no one should know that I am English." Mr.Malet, however, solved the difficulty; for when, in the evening, Harry went to enquire about the time that they would start, he said: "I had been thinking of offering you a suit to ride down in but, unfortunately, my clothes would be a great deal too small for you.
However, I think that, after all, it is best you should go down as you are.