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He passed through Peshawur and associated himself to the Second Summer caravan that goes to Kabul. The merchants are pleased because through superstition they imagine that such mad fellows bring good-fortune." The two, then, were beyond the Border. I would have prayed for them, but, that night, a real King died in Europe, and demanded on obituary notice.
Allah, what a city! 'My father's brother, and he was an old man when Mackerson Sahib's well was new at Peshawur, could recall when there were but two houses in it. He led the horses below the main road into the lower Simla bazar the crowded rabbit-warren that climbs up from the valley to the Town Hall at an angle of forty-five.
The Man Who Was was written in 1889. 46:6 anomaly. Deviation from type. 47:1 Hussars. Light-horse troopers armed with sabre and carbine. 47:1 Peshawur. City in British India. 47:7 Tyrones. From a county in Ireland by this name. 47:26 Burmah. In southeastern Asia. Part of the British Empire. 47:27 Irrawaddy. Chief river of Burma. 48:27 Sotnia. Company of the Cossacks. 50:14 rupee.
It came winding down from the passes, over slopes of shale; it was built with wooden galleries along the precipitous sides of cliffs; it snaked treacherously further and further across the rich valley of Chiltistan towards the Hindu Kush, until the people of that valley could endure it no longer. Then suddenly from Peshawur the wires began to flash their quiet and ominous messages.
"But how did you manage?" Bertram inquired with some diffidence. "It raises a point you wouldn't let me talk about at Peshawur, but I've often felt guilty because I didn't insist. Traveling about as you have done is expensive." "Not to me," Blake explained with a twinkle. "I've turned adventurer, and I have the Blake gift of getting along without money."
The general at Peshawur had compressed about a ton of miscellaneous information into fifteen hurried minutes, but mostly he had given him leave and orders to inform himself; so the fun was under way of winning exact knowledge in spite of officers, not one of whom would not have grown instantly suspicions at the first asked question.
There was a gold-embroidered Peshawur turban-cap, rising to a cone, and a big turban-cloth ending in a broad fringe of gold. There was a Delhi embroidered waistcoat to slip over a milky white shirt, fastening to the right, ample and flowing; green pyjamas with twisted silk waist-string; and that nothing might be lacking, russia-leather slippers, smelling divinely, with arrogantly curled tips.
"The southern tribes Bengalis of the south and east would give better picking than mere medal ribbons!" They were not all sure of him. They were not all satisfied why he should ride on to Peshawur, and decline to stay with them and talk good sedition. "I would see how the British are!" he told them. And he told the truth.
No subsequent efforts on Dost Mahomed's part availed to expel the Sikhs from Peshawur, and suspicious of British connivance with Runjeet Singh's successful aggression, he took into consideration the policy of fortifying himself by a counter alliance with Persia. As for Shah Soojah, he had crept back to his refuge at Loodianah.
He bought it in the bazaar at Peshawur, and sent it home to me just as he was starting on one of those little frontier wars the accounts of which they keep out of the English papers. And he was killed, poor dear old boy, in some footy little skirmish. And this is all I've got left of him." Poppy spread out the ends of the scarf for Mr. Iglesias' inspection. "It must have cost a lot of money.
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