OF NEVIL BROOKE; OR, HOW INDIA WAS WON FOR ENGLAND. BY CHRISTOPHER JAMES RIETHMÜLLER, AUTHOR OF "TEUTON, A POEM," ETC. IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. III. LONDON: GEORGE BELL & SONS, YORK STREET, THE ADVENTURES OF NEVIL BROOKE. BOOK IX.-CALCUTTA. CHAPTER I. INTRIGUES. As Nevil entered Pondicherry, he met a company of soldiers, with crape on their colours, and other signs of mourning. They were returning from the Chevalier's funeral, a ceremony never long delayed in those climates, and the sound of a martial air had already succeeded the dead-march. Sorry and sick at heart, Nevil hastened to the hospitable mansion, which in former days had given him rest and shelter. An old Hindoo servant informed him, that Mademoiselle de Ste. Croix could see nobody. VOL. III. B |