There is no use disguising it from ourselves, Doctor, before a week is over there may not be a white man left alive in India, save the garrisons of strong places like Agra, and perhaps the presidential towns, where there is always a strong European force." "I can't deny that it is possible, Bathurst.

If this revolt spreads though the three Presidencies the work of conquering India will have to be begun again, and worse than that, for we should have opposed to us a vast army drilled and armed by ourselves, and led by the native officers we have trained.

It seems stupefying that an empire won piecemeal, and after as hard fighting as the world has ever seen, should be lost in a week." The Doctor spoke as if the question was a purely impersonal one.
"Ugly, isn't it ?" he went on; "and to think I have been doctoring up these fellows for the last thirty years--saving their lives, sir, by wholesale.

If I had known what had been coming I would have dosed them with arsenic with as little remorse as I should feel in shooting a tiger's whelp.

Well, there is one satisfaction, the Major has already done something towards turning the courthouse into a fortress, and I fancy a good many of the scoundrels will go down before they take it, that is, if they don't fall on us unawares.