All his enemies where he could put his hand on them! Cheerful was the word.
The crust of civilization was thin; the true savage was cracking out through it.

In the days of the Mutiny Umballa would have been the Nana Sahib's right hand.

He would have given the tragedy at Cawnpur an extra touch.
Ten thousand rupees did not go far among soldiers whose arrears called for ten times that sum.

So he placed it where it promised to do the most good.

It was a capital idea, this of cutting Ramabai's throat with his own money.