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He thought bitterly, standing there, of Calcutta's recognition of the claims of legitimate drama, for the dank darkness was full of the noise of wheels and the flashing of lamps on the way to accord another season's welcome to Jimmy Finnigan. "I might've learned this town well enough by now," he reflected, "to know that a bally minstrel show's about the size of it." Mr. Stanhope had not Mr.
He saw that her lids as she raised them to answer were slightly reddened at the edges, testifying to the acridity of Calcutta's road dust, and a dry crack crept into the silver voice with which she said matter-of-factly, "We are never too exhausted to attend to our Master's business." Lindsay's face expressed an instant's hesitation, he looked gravely the other way. "And the address?" he said.
At sundown nowadays half the pianos in Chowringee where Calcutta's officials and prosperous commercial people reside seem to be playing airs from American light operas, and not infrequently a regimental band compliments the United States by playing "Hiawatha" or one of Sousa's compositions.
The creature finally turns to his Creator, if for no other reason than to ask in anguish: 'Why, Lord, why? By ignoble whips of pain, man is driven at last into the Infinite Presence, whose beauty alone should lure him." The sage and I were present in Calcutta's Kalighat Temple, whither I had gone to view its famed magnificence.
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