United States or Nicaragua ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
The witty and yet kindly way in which their excellencies and defects are touched off is delightful, and many a harassed mem-sahib must bless Eha for showing her the humorous and human side of her life surrounded as it is by those necessary but annoying inhabitants of the Godowns behind the bungalow. A tenth edition of this book was published in 1911.
"Will the mem-sahib deign to drink?" a deferential voice asked behind her. She looked round sharply to see the old snake-charmer, bent nearly double with age and humility, meekly offering her a small brass drinking-vessel. His offer surprised her, knowing the Hindu's horror of a stranger's polluting touch, but she accepted it without question.
"Go on!" gasped Stella almost inarticulately. Hanani took up her tale again in a mysterious whisper that crept in eerie echoes about the ruined place in which they sat. "Mem-sahib, Hafiz said that there was doubtless a reason for which he feigned death. He said that Dacre sahib was a bad man, and my lord the captain sahib knew it.
But a guard dove into the crowd; uselessly, however. Kathlyn touched Ramabai's arm. "Oh, I must speak to her!" "Be careful, Mem-sahib!" he warned. But even as she spoke she stepped past him, toward her beloved sister, and offered the flowers she held. Winnie, not dreaming that this dark veiled creature was her sister, smelled the flowers and beheld a card which had writing on it English!
He had noted, with some secret alarm, a grave-faced, sturdy Frenchman, still in the forties, who was cast in the role of either courier or butler for the beautiful Mem-Sahib, whose loveliness in extenso he so far only divined by guess-work.
This time she called to the hamal, a Bhil, engaged out of compassion, and likely, as a son of the jungle's sons, to be of more courage than the stall-fed butler in presence of dangerous beast or reptile. "Hamal: I want you," she called coolly. "Mem-Sahib?" came the reply from the lamp-room near by, and the man approached. "That stupid butler has dropped a lamp and run away.
"If I lead you to the Mem-sahib, it must be alone." "You say that you alone know where she is?" "I meant that I alone will lead you to her. And you must decide quickly, Durga Ram, for even now they are preparing for night, and this time they will go far." "Lead on." "Send the guards back to the palace." Umballa made a sign with his hand, but another with his eyes.
"Only three miles to Kundaghat!" she ejaculated in amazement. "Only three miles, most gracious." For the first time a hint of pride was mingled with the humility in his reedy voice. "The mem-sahib has travelled hither by a way that few know." Beryl was fairly amazed at the news. She had believed herself to be many miles away.
"It is not our fault, Light of Heaven, Father of the Poor, the Mem-Sahib came the white Mem-Sahib. We are poor men; we have no fault at all." Hamilton listened for a moment to the storm of words and protesting cries. Then he raised his hand and there was silence, but for a sound of rising wind without and the sobbing of the natives.
My plan is this: we will take five racing camels, go north and turn, making the well from the west. That will not look like pursuit." "But five camels?" Bala Khan was curious. "Yes. In order to allay the suspicions of the brigands, Kathlyn Mem-sahib and my wife must accompany us." The colonel objected, but Kathlyn overruled his objections. "But, Kit, they will recognize us.
Word Of The Day