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Updated: May 9, 2025
"How the light light love, he has wings to fly At suspicion of a bond." Browning. The rugged peak of Bakrota was enveloped in a grey winding-sheet, impenetrable, all-pervading; a dense mass of vapour ceaselessly rolling onward, yet never rolling past. It was as if the mountain had become entangled in the folds of a giant's robe.
But the mere getting down from the top of Bakrota, and climbing half-way up the neighbouring hill, through a desolating world of mist and rain, was, in itself, a prospect that would have daunted a less headstrong woman.
As dusk came on the stars blazed out wonderfully through the clear mountain atmosphere, and my father showed me the constellations or treated me to an astronomical discourse. The house we had taken at Bakrota was on the highest hill-top. Though it was nearing May it was still bitterly cold there, so much so that on the shady side of the hill the winter frosts had not yet melted.
Only it is a little awkward our being here together; and it might be as well to come to some sort of understanding before we separate. Are you up here for the season?" "Yes, we have been up all the winter, Michael and I, except for two months at Lahore. When the snow melted we moved to the highest cottage on Bakrota. It is beautiful up there.
He himself then mounted, and followed her along the narrow path, raging against the irony of circumstance, as a man bites upon a sore tooth. On reaching the spaciousness of Bakrota Mall, he had no choice but to ride abreast of his companion.
But Lenox, impelled by an inbred desire to climb, was minded to push on to the higher, emptier levels of Bakrota the great hill that towered, formidable, directly ahead of him.
For the chalet-like dwellings of Dalhousie are scattered sparsely over three hills, Bakrota, Terah, Potrain; and the summit of the last and lowest is crowned by Strawberry Bank Hotel, mainly the resort of captains and subalterns from the four plains stations of the district, doing their two months of signalling, Garrison Class, or of unadulterated loafing, as the case may be.
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