43/46 If you and your friends grant us the terms we ask, the Sepoys may clamor, but they will not venture to do more. Neither they nor Nana Sahib dare at this moment affront the people of Oude. If you are firm, they will not dare to break with you on such a question as the lives of a score of Europeans. If you will give me your word and your honor that all shall be spared, I will come out in the morning with a flag of truce to treat with you. If not, we will defend ourselves to the last, and then blow ourselves into the air." "And you think," Por Sing said doubtfully, "that if I agreed to this, it would be taken into consideration should the British Raj be restored." "I can promise you that it will," Bathurst said. |