At least the Babu would be a witness to their oppression.
'My royal master, he will be much annoyed, but these people are onlee common people and grossly ignorant.

If your honours will kindly overlook unfortunate affair, I shall be much pleased.

In a little while rain will stop and we can then proceed.

You have been shooting, eh?
That is fine performance!' He skipped nimbly from one kilta to the next, making pretence to adjust each conical basket.

The Englishman is not, as a rule, familiar with the Asiatic, but he would not strike across the wrist a kindly Babu who had accidentally upset a kilta with a red oilskin top.