It is thus the war is waged.
Frank Greystock took up the Sawab's case, and would have drawn mingled
tears and indignation from his hearers, had not his hearers all known the
conditions of the contest. On neither side did the hearers care much for
the Sawab's claims, but they felt that Greystock was making good his own
claims to some future reward from his party. He was very hard upon the
minister, and he was hard also upon Lord Fawn, stating that the cruelty of
Government ascendancy had never been put forward as a doctrine in plainer
terms than those which had been used in "another place" in reference to
the wrongs of this poor ill-used native chieftain. This was very grievous
to Lord Fawn, who had personally desired to favour the ill-used chieftain;
and harder again because he and Greystock were intimate with each other.
He felt the thing keenly, and was full of his grievance when, in
accordance with his custom, he came down to Fawn Court on the Saturday
evening.
The Fawn family, which consisted entirely of women, dined early. On
Saturdays, when his lordship would come down, a dinner was prepared for
him alone. On Sundays they all dined together at three o'clock.
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