Tippoo Sultaun. A Tale of the Mysore War

The few persons on the bank of the river rushed hither and thither without any definite object : and screams from some women who had followed the men from the village out of curiosity rent the air and added to the wildness of the scene. [...] lady with the utmost speed he was able to his own home a respectable house situated on the other side of the village from where the Khan was : without ceremony he entered the zenana still bearing her in his arms to the astonishment of an elderly dame his mother and several other women servants and others who happened to be there and to whom the news of the disaster was being brought pieceme [...] The troublous times between the end of the Bejapoor dynasty and the subsequent struggles of the Mahratta powers the Nizam and Hyder Ali for the districts in which their possessions lay had alienated many of them and caused them to pass into other and stronger hands. [...] His quick eye saw thy liffless form cast up by the boiling water and he rescued thee at the peril of his own life —a valuable one too fairest for he is the son of a widow the only son and the head of the family — in a word the son of her who has tended thee so gently—' 'Holy Prophet I' exclaimed the lady was I in this peril and so rescued? [...] The grave of the Khan's retainer had been filled in and the long narrow mound raised on the top : one by one those who had attended the funeral turned away and retired ; but the Khan and Kasim anxious to pay the last marks of respect to the dceased stayed till all had been smoothed down and the place swept.