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One going through Benares, from street to street, from one end of it to the other, does not get the impression its resident population exceeds the estimate found in official statements. The city has a great floating population, as it is the resort of strangers from all parts of India.
Add to this singular union of commercial advantages the circumstance so important in an India controlled by Englishmen that the climate, though warm, is perfectly wholesome, and you will see that Allahabad must soon be a great emporium of trade." "Provided," I suggested, "Benares yonder Benares is too close by to feel uninterested will let it be so." "Oh! Benares is the holy city.
"Twenty dollars?" "Yes. Tell me how you fixed it." "Why," answered Murdock with a cruel laugh, "you was laid off as one of the Benares Brothers up at the show on account of drinking, wasn't you?" Daley moodily nodded his head. "They put on Thacher in your place. You and him are probably the only two men in the profession who can do the somersault trapeze act with old Benares.
One day a certain chela, convinced that his worth was not being duly evaluated, gave voice to his discontent. "Master," he said, "surely I am ready now for the second initiation." At this moment the door opened to admit a humble disciple, Brinda Bhagat. He was a Benares postman. "Brinda, sit by me here." The great guru smiled at him affectionately.
Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been. Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar. In one of those Benares temples we saw a devotee working for salvation in a curious way. He had a huge wad of clay beside him and was making it up into little wee gods no bigger than carpet tacks. He stuck a grain of rice into each to represent the lingam, I think.
We resumed work at Benares recruited in health, and refreshed in spirit, and prepared by the experience of previous years to prosecute it with new effectiveness.
When he judged it to be nearly eight o'clock, Dick nudged Surajah, who said, a minute afterwards: "We have forgotten the Benares cloth-of-gold. I am sure that will please the ladies for waist bands, or for trimmings. It must have got into the other bales, by mistake." "I will go and fetch it," Dick said, and, rising, left the room. A figure was standing at the door, when he reached the house.
An acquaintance with these languages is indispensable to missionary efficiency in Northern India, but it is very difficult to attain marked excellence in both. A very brief residence at Benares led me to see the great difference between the society to which I had come and that which I had left.
Shall it fly to Benares, this news that Allaha permits itself to be ruled and bullied by a common murderer; a man without family, a liar and a cheat? Durga Ram, who slew the king; you turned upon the hand that had fed and clothed you and raised you to power. . . . Wait! Let this woman speak!"
Before leaving Benares I must speak again of the scene at the river, which far excels any representation I have seen of it or any description I have read. Photographs cannot be made to convey a just idea of its picturesque beauty, because the view is enlivened by such masses and combinations of color as Turner alone could do justice to.
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