"Think not that the sky will be so kind as Akhbar was."
"His life was free from every kind of fault."
"All kings which were, or which are, or which will be upon the earth are not so great as Akhbar was."
"He gave justice to all his people."
"The sky is not so elegant or so lofty as the throne of Akhbar."
"No one is saved from the hands of Death."
CHAPTER XIII
DELHI
Meerut itself, where the Mutiny first broke out, is but forty miles from Delhi, and when the rebel troops reached the old capital, Delhi became the centre of revolt. It fell entirely into the hands of the mutineers, and when the combined forces defeated the enemy at a village six miles north of Delhi they gained possession of the "Ridge" (where the red sandstone comes to surface in strata of about forty-five degrees), only to find that they who would fain have besieged the city were to become themselves besieged and suffer heavy losses before General Nicholson could reach them with reinforcements from the Punjab.