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At the Point of the Bayonet

CHAPTER 6: In The Company's Service
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She loves me as a mother; and I think that, so long as I am quartered here, she will remain.

She has already found a lodging, at the house of a woman of the same caste as herself; and tells me that she is sure she will be comfortable with her.

If we move, and all goes on quietly in the Deccan, she will return to her brother's, where she is thoroughly at home and happy." "And Sufder ?" "He will return, in the course of a week or so.

He is greatly interested in what he sees here, especially in the shipping, never having seen the sea before.

I think that, probably, he will remain for two or three years with his troop of two hundred men; and will then settle in the village, of which and the surrounding country he has received the jagheer.


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