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Misses and Matrimony 89: Nasty little black things; I am sure they are more than half niggers; twelve annas to the rupee, as Broughton used to say, for it was a very hot day, and I could see that their knuckles were quite blue. Aunt says you can always tell a half-caste in that way. Misses and Matrimony 92: ‘I sold one to the Burra Sahib’s mem yesterday for two hundred rupee’. Misses and Matrimony 76: He is quite a boy, and I hate boys, they are so conceited, and think it the right thing – the cheese, as they call it – to pay one a lot of clumsy compliments. Misses and Matrimony 69: Mrs. Fletcher was complaining the other day to aunt about her servants. She said they ‘dicked’ her so. [...] At last, I found out that to ‘dick’ meant in Hindustani to bother. Misses and Matrimony 67: ‘That,’ said aunt, ‘why, you griffin, that’s only the jackals; you’ll soon get used to it’ [Ibid.] 69: ‘She said they “dicked” her so. Now, I didn’t like to ask what she meant, because people always laugh so, and call me a griff, as if one ought to learn all about Indian ways and expressions in the nursery’ . Misses and Matrimony 92: ‘I sold one to the Burra Sahib’s mem yesterday for two hundred rupee’.