They did for themselves . They had plenty of supplies . They only wished to push on as soon as might be . At this he waylaid a cowering hillman among the trees , and after three minutes ' talk and a little silver -LRB- one can not be economical upon State service , though Hurree 's heart bled at the waste -RRB- the eleven coolies and the three hangers-on reappeared . At least the Babu would be a witness to their oppression . ` My royal master , he will be much annoyed , but these people are onlee common people and grossly ignorant . If your honours will kindly overlook unfortunate affair , I shall be much pleased . In a little while rain will stop and we can then proceed . You have been shooting , eh ? That is fine performance ! ' He skipped nimbly from one kilta to the next , making pretence to adjust each conical basket . The Englishman is not , as a rule , familiar with the Asiatic , but he would not strike across the wrist a kindly Babu who had accidentally upset a kilta with a red oilskin top . On the other hand , he would not press drink upon a Babu were he never so friendly , nor would he invite him to meat . The strangers did all these things , and asked many questions -- about women mostly -- to which Hurree returned gay and unstudied answers . They gave him a glass of whitish fluid like to gin , and then more ; and in a little time his gravity departed from him . He became thickly treasonous , and spoke in terms of sweeping indecency of a Government which had forced upon him a white man 's education and neglected to supply him with a white man 's salary . He babbled tales of oppression and wrong till the tears ran down his cheeks for the miseries of his land . Then he staggered off , singing love-songs of Lower Bengal , and collapsed upon a wet tree-trunk . Never was so unfortunate a product of English rule in India more unhappily thrust upon aliens . ` They are all just of that pattern , ' said one sportsman to the other in French .
` When we get into XXXXX proper thou wilt see .
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