I knew then that I could do my employer no good, but would only throw my own life away if I meddled in the matter.

From where I stood I could see hundreds of the black fiends, with their red coats still on their backs, dancing and howling round the burning house.

Some of them pointed at me, and a couple of bullets sang past my head; so I broke away across the paddy-fields, and found myself late at night safe within the walls at Agra.
"As it proved, however, there was no great safety there, either.

The whole country was up like a swarm of bees.

Wherever the English could collect in little bands they held just the ground that their guns commanded.