As they wore scarves that had been furnished them by Fazli Ali, showing that they were officers of the Palace, they were everywhere greeted with deep salaams.
"I hope," Dick said, as they returned from their ride, "that Tippoo will not be long before he finds us some other duties.

There is nothing very interesting in counting carcases, or seeing rice measured." "That is true enough," Surajah agreed.

"But we must not be impatient.
Fortune has befriended us marvellously, and I have great faith that it will continue to do so.

We must be content to wait." "Yes, I know that, Surajah, but I think it is all the more difficult to do so, because we have done so much in a short time.

It seems as if one ought to go on at the same rate." That evening they went down, as they had arranged, with ordinary wraps round their gay attire, to Pertaub's, taking with them the caskets of gems.