Hastings

The farm in the valley of the moon evidently caught his fancy, and, though the Japanese and his parcels were safely in the skiff, Hastings still lingered.

So strikingly did they resemble each other, that Hastings was not many minutes in calling attention to it.

Hastings decided to eat dinner--he called the midday meal by its old-fashioned name--before sailing; and down below Saxon was surprised and delighted by the measure of comfort in so tiny a cabin.

"I can tell you, Hastings, it's making life jolly difficult for us.

"I'm afraid you'll find it very quiet down here, Hastings."

Hastings." Then, turning to his wife: "Emily dearest, I think that cushion is a little damp."

The striking victory over a menacing combination of Turks and Arabs in the north, won by troops under the command of Lord Hastings, the veteran of so many striking victories, was already spread by the newspapers all over the Empire, let alone to this small garrison so near to the battlefield.

"One would think you didn't really admire Hastings or--or--anything."

"But here comes Lady Hastings. You know her, I think."

During the seventeenth century the English East India Company, originally organized for trade, had acquired possessions in India, which, in the middle of the eighteenth century and later, the genius of Clive and Warren Hastings had increased and consolidated into a great empire.

While the trial of Hastings was still in progress all Europe was shaken by the outbreak of the French Revolution, which for the remainder of his life became the main and perturbing subject of Burke's attention.

On such occasions, as in his first speech in the impeachment of Hastings, he was irresistible.