They value them at 8 pounds the brace; in all, 108 pounds.
"Will that suit you?
The major will, as I proposed, stop the money from your pay as a first-class interpreter--that is, two hundred and fifty rupees a month--so that, in four months and a half, you will have cleared it off." "I am very much obliged to you, Colonel; but I have just received an advance of fifteen hundred rupees, on some of my gems which the Parsee is going to send to a jeweller, of the name of Burragee, at Madras." "I congratulate you, for I hardly hoped that they would turn out to be worth so much.

Burragee is a first-rate man, and you can rely upon getting a fair price from him.

Well, that obviates all difficulty.
"By the way, I should recommend you to get a light bedstead and bed, and a couple of blankets, at one of the Parsee stores.

Of course, you did not think of it, yesterday, or you might have bought Hitchcock's.

However, I noticed in one of the Parsees' shops a number of light bamboo bedsteads; which are the coolest and best in a climate like this.