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He looked at the worn face of the Commissioner, then he lifted his eyes and swept the horizon with his gaze. The violet light upon the hills had lost its brightness and its glamour. In the far distance the hills themselves were withdrawn. Somewhere in that great barrier to the east was the gap of the Malakand Pass, where the Road now began. Linforth turned away from the hills towards Peshawur.
'He has gone now to send word of the letter which I hid. They told me he was in Peshawur. I might have known that he is like the crocodile always at the other ford. He has saved me from present calamity, but I owe my life to thee. 'Is he also one of Us? Kim ducked under a Mewar camel-driver's greasy armpit and cannoned off a covey of jabbering Sikh matrons. 'Not less than the greatest.
But the work of pacification was disturbed in the year 1895 by a rising in the Chitral Valley, which cut off in Chitral Fort a small force of Sikhs and loyal Kashmir troops with their British officers. In this year Russia and England delimited their boundaries in the Pamirs. The year 1897 saw all the hill tribes west and south of Peshawur rise against the British Raj.
"It raises a point you wouldn't let me talk about at Peshawur, but I've often felt guilty because I didn't insist. Travelling about as you have done is expensive." "Not to me," Blake rejoined with a twinkle. "I've turned adventurer and I have the Blake gift of getting along without money."
But he strode on with apparent unconcern, and talked with the utmost friendliness on the municipal affairs of Peshawur." "It is very hot," said Futteh Ali Shah, "and I am afraid for your Excellency's health. For myself, of course, I am not troubled, but so much walking will be dangerous to you"; and he halted and looked longingly back to his horse. "Thank you," said Ralston.
Within four months Mackay, with some other young missionaries who had volunteered for the same great work, was standing on the deck of the S.S. Peshawur as she steamed out from Southampton for Zanzibar. He was in the footsteps of Livingstone "a Scotsman and a Christian" making for the heart of Africa and "ready to turn his hand to anything" for the sake of Him who as
When the Amir Dost Mahomed Khan came to Peshawur in 1856, he was accompanied by Hafiz Ji, a leading mullah of Afghanistan and a great doctrinarian; to whom came the learned amongst the Faithful, to discuss the tenets of their religion and to listen to the wisdom of the wise.
In January 1877 a final effort was made to come to terms, and Sir Lewis Pelly and the Afghan Prime Minister, Noor Mahomed, had a conference at Peshawur. The first, and indeed the only point discussed, was the demand that British representatives should reside in Afghanistan, which was a sine qua non.
He is devoted, in a fat man's placid way, to at least eight designing women; but she nursed him once through a bad bout of Peshawur fever, and when she is in the house, it is more than all hers. "You didn't send rugs enough," she began. "Adam might have taken a chill." "It's quite warm in the tonneau. Why did you let him ride in front?"
But if it will console or help at all, know this," and the words were underlined as indeed were many words in Violet Oliver's letters "that I never was good enough for you and you are well rid of me. I told you what I was, didn't I, Dick? a foolish lover of beautiful things. I tried to tell you the whole truth that last evening in the garden at Peshawur, but you wouldn't let me, Dick.
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