
These lines are from one of the classic from Rusikin bond and this lines shows the romanticism of a British girl Ruth Labadoor towards a Javed Khan.The book is set in Shahjahanpur, a small town 250 miles east of Delhi in India, during the revolt of 1857 against the British.Ruth and her mother Mariam with a few other surviving members of her family get forcibly abducted by Javed Khan.Javed Khan wanted to marry Ruth but her mother pursued him to wait till the result of revolt,the book follows the life and condition of Ruth. He was very wild and muddle-headed, and often cruel, but he was also very handsome and gallant, and ther e was in him a streak of nobility which he did his best to conceal” Looking back on those months when we were his prisoners, I cannot help feeling a sneaking admiration for him. “ Secretly, I have always hoped that he succeeded in escaping.
