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Updated: June 3, 2025
I don't want to take any more luggage than I can help; as it is, I foresee we shall have a mountain. Boggley has been begging everyone for the loan of books, as he does not see how I am to be kept in reading matter when there are no libraries within reach. He accuses me of being capable of finishing two fat volumes in a day, but I shan't have time to read much if I carry out my great project.
That was all very well, but the hotel people thoughtfully provided us with a substantial luncheon before we left. Even then Boggley kept on looking to the future. "Oh, tuck in," he said. "We shan't get anything more till eight o'clock."
He had two names for him "Lo-the-poor-Indian" and "Boggley-Wallah" and in time we all slipped into calling him Boggley. I like to think you two men were such friends at Oxford. Long before I knew you I had heard many tales of your doings, and I think that was one reason why, when we did meet, we liked each other and became friends, because we were both so fond of Boggley.
They went straight on to Manpur with the luggage instead of waiting at the station where we changed trains. It was ten o'clock when I got out of the train, and Boggley had said he would be no later than half-past eleven; then we would have luncheon, and get the one o'clock train to Manpur. I went into the refreshment-room to ask what we could have for luncheon,
It is nice of you to say I have a courageous outlook on life, but I wish I hadn't told you the story of the mongoose that was an otter. Now you will say, like Boggley, Funk-stick! If I stay much longer in this frightsome land my hair will be white and my nervous system a mere wreck. Yesterday we left the solitude of Rika and went to polo at a place about seventeen miles away.
I thought G. was the prettiest girl there. She is always such a refreshing sight, pink and white and golden like a morning in May, and tall "like a king's own daughter." I was with the Ormondes and, of course, Boggley. Mrs. Ormonde is so charming, she is a great favourite with men, and is always surrounded when she goes anywhere by about half a dozen eager for her smiles.
It was quite an important station, and the large refreshment-room had a long table set for dinner. Lining the walls of the room were tall glass cases filled with tinned meats, jam, biscuits, and other eatables, for in the Mofussil provisions are bought at the railway stations. After dinner Boggley produced a pencil and sheet of paper. "Now," he said, "we must make a list of provisions wanted."
There is a land of large black beetle with wings that has a strange habit of poising itself just above my head and remaining there. Someone told me who I forget; anyway, Boggley says it isn't true, but it seems quite likely that if these beetles drop on you they explode. Did you ever hear of anything quite so horrible? I keep a wary eye on them and shift my seat at their approach.
These are the prayers, and at intervals you twirl the wheel round, and the oftener you turn it the more devout you are. I also purchased some lumps of rough turquoise, though Boggley said they were not a good blue, too pale, and was tying them up in my handkerchief when Boggley gripped my arm. "Look!" he said.
"About 4.30," said Boggley. This was 9 p.m. "What!" I cried, aghast, "Where are we going to sleep?" Boggley waved his hands comprehensively. "Anywhere," he said; "we'll see what the waiting-room is like." The waiting-room was like nothing I had ever seen before.
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