Robert Ainsleigh, by the author of 'Lady Audley's secret'., Volume 3J. Maxwell and Company, 1872 |
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Page 335 - Carnatic, where every governor of a fort and every commander of a district had assumed the title and state of Nabob. " Scourge me the next son of a dog who dares approach my presence under the name of Nabob!" cried the proud old Viceroy ; " for I have this day seen no less than eighteen Nabobs in the Carnatic, whereas I imagined there was but one in the Southern Provinces.
Page 315 - There followed the usual greetings — gracious questionings as to where I had been, and what I had been doing, since that awful time when I had lain like a felon in Newgate.
Page 322 - ... native usurpers. He was now Governor of the Mogul dominions on the Coast of Coromandel from the river Kistna to Cape Comorin. He affected an oriental magnificence known only to native princes, and displayed amongst his splendid insignia the princely badge of the fish ; while his friends boldly affirmed that ere long the Mogul on his throne would tremble at the name of Dupleix. The English beheld those triumphs of a rival nation with an indifference that might proceed from either apathy or despair.
Page 93 - you see, at last, the struggle between the body and the soul. You see conscience forced to yield, even in a redoubt which it had believed impregnable.
Page 336 - Koran, and one of the religions officers attached to the person of the late mighty Aurungzebe. The new nabob was a brave and prudent officer ; but the people of the Carnatic cherished a warm affection for the race of Dost Ally, whose descendants had governed them with a gentle hand, and Nizam-al-Mulk found it prudent to assert that An'war-adean was appointed only as a regent until such time as Seid Mahomet, the son of Subder Ally, should be old enough to reign. In the mean time the boy was placed...
Page 331 - Ally could not bring himself to make, and he strove to soften his creditor by humble excuses and pretended poverty, even giving out that he intended to go to Arabia, and end his days in acts of piety at the tomb of his Prophet. ' His poverty and devotion were alike assumed, but the late calamities had made such an impression upon his mind that he left the defenceless city of Arcot, and took up his residence in the fortified citadel of...
Page 331 - That ambitious spirit, Chunda Saheb, being thus safely bestowed at a remote distance from the Carnatic, and the Morattoes appeased by the conquest of Trichinopoly, Subder Ally might have enjoyed his kingdom in tolerable security but for his ever-present fear of the Nizam, whose wrath could only be appeased by the payment of those large arrears of revenue which the late Nabob, Dost Ally, had withheld.