| Edward Archer - Bengal (India) - 1833 - 416 pages
...done by her orders, and in her presence ; even those about her, say she is a severe mistress. A story is current of her having detected one of her household...permitted the old lady " to attend the ceremony." t Feb. 21. — Marched into Meerut cantonment, (eight miles and a half.) On quitting our ground, his... | |
| Edward Archer - Bengal (India) - 1833 - 420 pages
...building a fine house at Kirwah, as it has been prognosticated by the astro144 THE BEGUM SOMROO. logers, that if she returns to Sirdanah, she will cease to...permitted the old lady " to attend the ceremony." MEERUT. 145 Feb. 21. — -Marched into Meerut cantonment, (eight miles and a half.) On quitting our... | |
| Edward Archer - Bengal (India) - 1833 - 420 pages
...between the power and comprehensiveness of the human mind and its weakness. Though now seventy -five years of age, she feels disposed to bamboozle the...permitted the old lady " to attend the ceremony." MEERUT. 145 Feb. 21. — Marched into Meerut cantonment, (eight miles and a half.) On quitting our... | |
| 1833 - 468 pages
...tired, others took their places, for it was fatiguing work. An unfortunate goat, lean and emaciated, pride of the Begum, who remonstrated. She was told...Bhurtpore, all Hindoostan will say I am grown a coward m my old age." Circumstances quickly permitted the old lady " to attend the ceremony." was brought... | |
| Brajendra Nath Banerjee - 1925 - 270 pages
...should accompany the besieging force with any of his troops ; this order hurt the pride of the Begam, who remonstrated. She was told that the large and...to her care. 'Nonsense, said she, 'if I don't go to Bharatpur, all Hindustan will say I am grown a coward in my old age' " (i 144*i). Mrs. Deane, a British... | |
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