tonga-wallah

It's hardly been a pleasant experience; that incompetent tonga-wallah behaved precisely as though he had deliberately made up his mind to delay me ....

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"Where," she continued, with an imperative stamp of a daintily-shod foot, "is that wretched tonga-wallah?"

The Bronze Bell Louis Joseph Vance 1906

If that were so, he vowed, the tonga-wallah would pay dearly for the indiscretion.

The Bronze Bell Louis Joseph Vance 1906

Amber considered that he had given Ram Nath no commission of any sort, and bent an attentive ear to the communication which the tonga-wallah insisted upon making to him.

The Bronze Bell Louis Joseph Vance 1906

He'd contrived to get a billet as tonga-wallah to the Kuttarpur

The Bronze Bell Louis Joseph Vance 1906

"Where is that tonga-wallah who deserted me here last night?" the woman was demanding of Ram Nath, too preoccupied with her resentment to have eyes for the other traveller, who at sight of her had stopped and removed his pith helmet and now stood staring as if he had come from a land in which there were no women.

The Bronze Bell Louis Joseph Vance 1906

Simply because that other tonga-wallah was a fool, am

The Bronze Bell Louis Joseph Vance 1906

Should it by any chance go off and the bullet find lodgment in your tonga-wallah, you are like to hear more of that Voice, and from less friendly lips. "

The Bronze Bell Louis Joseph Vance 1906

He bribed his brother tonga-wallah to bring it about. "

The Bronze Bell Louis Joseph Vance 1906

"That," said the tonga-wallah in a level voice, "is known as the

The Bronze Bell Louis Joseph Vance 1906