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The three guineas in his pocket were the price of blood! 'The insult to British prestige in the East, ran that terrible opening paragraph, 'implied in the brief telegram which we publish this morning from our own Correspondent at Simla, calls for a speedy and a severe retribution. It must be washed out in blood. Blood, blood, blood! The letters swam before his eyes.
Nevertheless, it had a name, it was called Amy Villa, freshly painted in white letters on a shiny black board, and nailed against the nearest tree in the orthodox Simla fashion. It looked as if the owner of the place had named it as a duty towards his tenant, the board was so new, and in that case the reflection presented itself that the tenant might have cooperated to call it something else.
From Simla we go down by train through hundreds of tunnels and round the sharpest curves, over countless bridges and along dizzy precipices, to the lowlands of the Punjab. It is exceedingly hot, and we long for a little breeze from Tibet's snowy mountains. Time flies by till we reach Delhi, situated on the Jumna, one of the affluents of the Ganges.
And round this hayrick stood a crowd of men a positive crowd! 'Perhaps they also expected. 'Polly, don't be Rabelaisian! Mrs. Mallowe curled herself up comfortably on the sofa, and turned her attention to the sweets. She and Mrs. Hauksbee shared the same house at Simla; and these things befell two seasons after the matter of Otis Yeere, which has been already recorded. Mrs.
Her father had nominated Sir Reginald her guardian, and Sir Reginald, aware of this fact, had sent her at once to his wife at Simla. The girl had been too ill at the time to take any interest in her destination or ultimate disposal.
Time and again, on my ride through India, have I experienced Anglo-Indian hospitality broad and generous as that of an Arab chief, enriched and rendered more acceptable by a feast of good-fellowship as well as creature considerations. The City of Palaces is hardly to be seen at its best in September, for the Viceregal Court is now at Simla, and with it all the government officials and high life.
We shall make your mark together we and you young people. Meantime, draw his picture. The Babu advanced loftily; his back out of all keeping with his deferential speech, or his wink towards Kim. 'Holy One, these be Sahibs. My medicines cured one of a flux, and I go into Simla to oversee his recovery. They wish to see thy picture 'To heal the sick is always good.
They were thought so quaint and sweet unlike other people and the girl so lovely, in a sort of gossamer way. And who do you think was always about with them at Peshawar first, and then at Simla so that everybody talked? Captain Warkworth! My man believed there was an understanding between them." Julie had begun to fill the flower-glasses with water and unpack the flower-basket.
"Well, then, we will wait for it; but it would be a great pity if, contrary to our expectation, it were to be delayed. The commission that I was on the point of procuring for you would certainly have greatly interested you." "And may I ask " "The General has the intention to send a detachment to Simla." "To Simla, the summer residence of the Viceroy?" "Yes."
That the new Viceroy should have thought it advisable almost immediately after his arrival in India to hold such prolonged intercourse with Mr. Gandhi is the best proof that the Mahatma is no mere dreamer whose influence is evanescent, but a power to be reckoned with. The Simla interviews did not seem to have been entirely fruitless when Mr.
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