1 A GENEALOGICAL HISTORY OF THE JUMMOO FAMILY. 261
2 but as a well-assumed and well-worn, befitting*, mystic cloak, to
3 screen a Machiavelian spirit, made up of a most diabolical,
4 wily, deceptive, crafty, dissembling-, faitbless, subtle, deep, dark,
5 designing*, and rutbless disposition. And all for what ? Ambi-
6 tion ! He was ever determined and indefatigable to gain his
7 end, but blind to the sacrifice it required, even to his own life,
8 person, honour and character, and even to that of his wife,
9 sons, and family ; all were shamefully sacrificed to the one
10 consuming passion — ambition and the thirst for aggrandize-
11 ment."
12 Of Rajah Suchet Sing we have the following- account : —
13 " Rajah Suchet Sing, though possessing but few of the quali-
14 ties of his brothers, still was, at the first view, esteemed polite
15 and courtly to a degree. He was certainly master of all their
16 bad traits, or was as deep and dark spotted. Without possessing
17 a whit more bravery or intrepidity, he assumed the tone and
18 air of a Bravo amongst them, always considering himself
19 and his handsome person to have been the chief cause, and
20 means of their rise and power. He was the bully at
21 court, and the desperado of the Punjaub- knowing better how
22 to fight than to command • a capital soldier bv.t no officer ;
23 utterly careless of life ; wild, furious, proud, fiery and impati-
24 ent in the midst of slaughter • always wishing to signalize him-
25 self and become the hero of some desperate and daring exploit •
26 — a would-be Deedoo — with a proud, high, domineering spirit
27 to both equals and superiors ■ irregular habits, and hard living •
28 a most licentious debauchee and shameless defiler of women, and
29 robber of the peace of many husbands and fathers. The hand-
30 some, dangerous, insinuating lady's man. The court dandy,
31 ever conscious of his beauty of person and figure • jealous, to a
32 degree of his nephew, Rajah Heera Sing, whom he well consi-
33 dered as his successful rival and successor in the affections of
34 his master. In few words his character may be depicted thus —