I thought that Figsby Sahib was a grocer," said I, to his much-altered wife.
She had not wanted a little girl at all, and when Mary was born she handed her over to the care of an Ayah, who was made to understand that if she wished to please the Mem Sahib she must keep the child out of sight as much as possible.
But remembering her pleasure in looking at the Mem Sahib in the past she was glad to hear that she might some day look like her.
No, too weak, and not fair to this kindSahib who had healed him and sympathized with him in the matter of the ignorance and impudence of those who misnamed a son of the Somals.
What would the Sahib himself do if his honour were assailed?
But the Sahib took me up into his office to soften blow to progenitor and that shows he was a bad man or his luck would not have been to take me in and give chance to murder him.
I will tell the Sahib the tale of the Blindness of Ibrahim Mahmud the Weeper, well knowing that he, a truth-speaker, will believe the truth spoken by his servant.
Was he not Jones Sahib who at Duri gave him the knife wherewith he cleansed his honour and avenged his insulted People?
The Sahib being English will believe this, but many Baluchis and Pathans do not.
And he would endeavour to let all and sundry see the immeasurable distance and impassable gulf that lay between a Sahib and a nigger--of any degree whatsoever.
Those who did him well and pleased him should get tips, and those who didn't should learn what it was to earn the displeasure of the Sahib and to evoke his wrath.
I never heard of any other Sahib dying of Plague in Gungapur except one missionary fellow who lived in the native city with native fellows.
Then, with a glance at Horace, he asked: "Why does this low-born one dare to enter the carriage of the Colonel Sahib and sit?
Am I a Sahib that I should regard night as the time wholly sacred to sleep and day as the time when to sleep is sin?
Once a strange Melican Sahib had said, "Hello, Buster!
Melican Sahib passed on, he spat on his shadow and said it.
His height was ten feet at the shoulder, and would the mem-sahib note the perfect slope of the back down to the beautiful, long, feathery tail.
If the mem-sahib will pardon her servant he would advise driving to Jessore and resting the night there at the dâk bungalow, that is if the mem-sahib is not in too great haste!
The sahib will place his hand upon the tiger's head.
It was the will of the Black One that the sahib should see the steed upon which she roams the jungle at night!
If the mem-sahib is sight-seeing, I will arrange everything in the most convenient and pleasant manner for her.
If the mem-sahib permits, I will call him to accompany her on her journey to Jessore.
It is not safe for the mem-sahib to go alone," he answered.
And may the sons of the sahib grow straight as the pine tree," he added slowly in his own tongue, as he felt the sahib's eyes fixed steadily upon him.
They're frightfully sick about that tiger being in a cage; they wouldn't have minded a sahib killing it for the good of mankind it seems, but putting it behind bars is an insult to some god, or something like that.
And although young Dean sighed lugubriously over his lady's defalcation, Jan Cuxson adored her utterly for her womanliness, and translated the remark the head shikari made as he handed back to the mem-sahib the rifle he had examined.
He talks to the Commissioner Sahib in Mandalay of what is here in the Valley of the Just.
She would be frightened if she found us here, and the Sahib Carrisford's plan would be spoiled.
If Missee Sahib would permit Ram Dass, he himself could cross the roof to her room, enter the windows, and regain the unworthy little animal.
It was my thought that it would please the sahib to see and speak with her.
Suppose she awakened," suggested the secretary; and it was evident that whatsoever the plan referred to was, it had caught and pleased his fancy as well as the Sahib Carrisford's.
Then she came to this fancy; and the next day, the Sahib being ill and wretched, I told him of the thing to amuse him.
I ran back to the hotel--through the back door, where the smoke was not so stifling--because I thought that sahib would perhaps have taken refuge there.
I looked for sahib everywhere, where English prisoners are; and when I came to Anar Kali just at the moment that Mrs. Irwin was being driven away in a carriage, I knew that I was at length on the track of my master.
Nana Sahib and his crew wallowed at that time in the fiendish tortures of white women and children, and shed streams of innocent blood.
That he, from this time forth, would share the lot of his adored sahib appeared to him a matter of course.
The Doctor Miss Sahib has mended me, she has done what my own mother would not do.
Therefore, if the General Sahib swore on his honour that the lives of himself and his men would be safe, and that his crops would be spared, he would surrender.
Halil Khan seemed wedded to his, and when he was informed that the General Sahib was going to extend to him the same terms as to Jiand and allow him to keep his rifle, his joy was very apparent.
The General Sahib has only to press a button and a hail of bullets will come out of those holes, and you, and all your men, will be killed.
Both he and the General Sahib must surely be in close league with Sheitan!
He well knew the country lying between Kacha and Khwash, and he could not believe the distance had been covered since he himself had seen the General Sahib in Kacha.
Besides, you fool, don't you know that the General Sahib has brought a wonderful devil with him?
Idu said they would be only too glad to go with the Sahib and to help him fight the enemies of the British Raj.
He had heard, he said, that it had been represented to the General Sahib that he had come on a warlike mission.
If, therefore, he would go back and beg the Sahib not to destroy them with his motor-car they would follow a few minutes later and surrender!
Will you swear on the Koran that the General Sahib is in Khwash, and that he really came over the hills in this strange thing which you call a motor-car, also that this motor-car is at Khwash?
Will the General Sahib permit me to go and see if I can persuade Izzat not to fight?
Was it possible that anything that belonged to the General Sahib should, or could, be burned?
Other of the villagers would be down to meet Warwick Sahib as soon as they heard the shouts of his beaters--but Little Shikara had been waiting almost an hour.
He went straight to do what service he could for the white sahib that was one of his lesser gods.
Warwick Sahib was going to make what was the nearest approach to a speech that he had made since various of his friends had decoyed him to a dinner in London some years before.
Faint through the jungle silences he heard Warwick Sahib calling to his faithless beaters.
Warwick Sahib had dismounted from his elephant as usual, the beaters said, and with but one attendant had advanced up the bed of a dry creek.
And when he met that one his eyes halted in their sweeping survey--and Warwick Sahib smiled.
A half mile distant, in his richly furnished bungalow, Warwick Sahib dozed over his after-dinner cigar.
Warwick Sahibwas dead, they said--they had heard the shots and run to the place of firing, and beat up and down through the bamboos; and Warwick Sahib had surely been killed and carried off by the tigress.
They said that he looked upon the Heaven-born sahib as a source of all power, in whose protection no harm could befall him, and he sped toward him because the distance was shorter than back to the haven of fire at the village.
Little one of mighty words, only the great sahibs that come from afar, and Warwick Sahib himself, may hunt the tiger, so how canst thou, little worthless?
But it was quite the way of Warwick Sahib to sweep his gray, tired-out eyes over a scene and seemingly perceive nothing; yet in reality absorbing every detail with the accuracy of a photographic plate.
III Warwick Sahib and Singhai disappeared at once into the fringe of jungle, and silence immediately fell upon them.
Warwick Sahib will go again to the jungles--and Nahara will be waiting.
Warwick Sahib rode in his howdah, and he did not seem to see the village people that came out to meet him.
Yes, my little Sahib Bahadur,” said the tallest of the men, “and eat you afterwards.
One of you must run into cantonments and take the news that the Miss Sahib has hurt herself, and that the Colonel’s son is here with her.
Chanda Sahib was besieging that fortress with a very large native force, aided by 900 Frenchmen.
During the Maratha invasion, then, Chanda Sahib {26}had sent thither his family, and his example had been followed by Safdar Ali.
Greatly impressed with these defections, Chanda Sahib at once despatched 3000 of his best troops to join the forces which his son, Raja Sahib, was commanding in North Arcot.
The arrangement between the two princes was that, in case of success, Muzaffar Jang should become Subahdar of the Deccan, Chanda Sahib Nawab of the Karnatik.
Marching straight to Arcot, Muzaffar Jang proclaimed himself Subahdar of the Deccan, and Chanda Sahib to be Nawab of Arcot.
Chanda Sahib himself carried the news of the accomplished revolution from the battlefield to Pondicherry.
The rumour that the great Maratha soldier, Morari Rao, was approaching the place to lend a hand to Clive, determined Raja Sahib to utilize his advantage without delay.
The superiority in numbers of the force of Raja Sahib was so great that, when he noted the approach of Clive, he turned to meet him.
To take Trichinopoli Chanda Sahib had massed all, or nearly all, his available troops before that place, leaving the capital of the Karnatik, Arcot, absolutely denuded of trustworthy fighting men.
Safdar Ali was then proclaimed Nawab at Arcot, and Chanda Sahibproceeded thither to do him homage.
As the French had espoused the cause of Chanda Sahib it was natural that the English should sustain the claims of the rival.
He produced the letter written once by Maharajah Howrah to the Alwa-sahib and sent by galloper with the present of a horse.
But for his revenues the Alwa-sahib had to look many a long day's march afield.
He seemed to have forgotten what the bungalow was for, or that a sahib needed things to eat, until the ex-risaldar enlightened him, and then he complained wheezily.
The Miss-sahib would be safe there under all circumstances.
I stand ready to obey, but the padre-sahib comes not against his will.
