Then, this evening we are to meet at nine o'clock, as usual, at the Major's.

If the others decide that the only plan is for all to stop here and fight it out, there will be no occasion for anything like a council; it will only have to be arranged at what time we all move into the fort, and the best means for keeping the news from spreading to the Sepoys.

Not that it will make much difference after they have once fairly turned in.

If there is one thing a Hindoo hates more than another, it is getting from under his blankets when he has once got himself warm at night.

Even if they heard at one or two o'clock in the morning that we were moving into the fort I don't think they would turn out till morning." "No, I am sure they would not," the Doctor agreed.
"If there were a few more of us," Richards said, "I should vote for our beginning it.