human
There's something jolly dramatic about all your chances depending on me, he said.
gpt
I might hold back your reports, or send on forged ones instead, or ruin you in about a hundred different ways. All Gerrard's communications with Ranjitgarh were to pass through Darwan, lest Partab Singh should intercept them on the shorter route.
human
When I am inclined to feel hipped, I shall spend a happy hour or so in devising uncomfortableness for you, my boy.
gpt
And how you would enjoy explaining to Miss Cinnamond the way in which you had eliminated your hated rival!
human
Well, why not? All the old fellows in the Ages of Chivalry, that she talks of, did that sort of thing all day long, so why should she blame in a poor beggar of a Bengali what she would pass over in a baron bold?
gpt
Her age of chivalry is about as near the truth as the idyllic pictures of blameless Hindus that they hold up in Parliament, I fancy. Well, Bob, we can't say you haven't told me what to expect. If I do call upon you for help, you'll know it's a mere matter of form.
human
Of course. It's quite impossible that I should get to you in time, you realise that? But I'll tell you what I will do for you, with the greatest pleasure. When you are safely dead, I'll avenge you in style. The smoking ruins of Agpur shall be your funeral pyre, as the old fellow said to the Dey of Algiers.
gpt
Most consoling to me. Well, good-bye, Bob!
human
Good-bye, Hal, and good luck to you!