They appear mild and submissive, and have certainly proved faithful on a hundred battlefields, but we don't know whether that is their real character.

Their own history, before we stepped in and altered its current, shows them as faithless, bloodthirsty and cruel; whether they have changed their nature under our rule, or simply disguised it, Heaven only knows." "At any rate," the Major said, "they have always shown themselves attached to their English officers.

There are numberless instances where they have displayed the utmost devotion for them, and although some scheming intriguers may have sown the seeds of discontent among them, and these lies about the cartridges may have excited their religious prejudices, and may even lead them to mutiny, I cannot believe for an instant that the Sepoys will lift their hands against their officers." "I hope not," the Doctor said gravely.

"A tiger's cub, when tamed, is one of the prettiest of playthings, but when it once tastes blood it is as savage a beast as its mother was before it.

Of course, I hope for the best, but if the Sepoys once break loose I would not answer for anything they might do.