For reasons of my own, I do not care to have a motherless girl exposed to the indiscriminate hubbub of merely official society.

The young lady will probably not remain in India.

I therefore sent them all away before this official visit, which would have forced a child, almost yet a school girl, out into the glare of this local junketing," he said with feeling.
"Take this saber, Major.

It was given up by Mir-zah Shah, a Warrior Prince, in old days, so the legend goes.

It is the sword of a king's son.