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Updated: June 3, 2025
As the Baboo steps through the wide swinging gate and enters the place that owns him master, let us mark his reception. The durwan first, our grenadier doorkeeper, the man of proud port and commanding presence, to whom that portal is a post of honor, our Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, in one, of courage, strength, and address enlisted with fidelity.
The Brahmin averts his face as he passes, and mutters, "She is as the flower which is out of reach, she is dedicated to God." That insolent official, the Baboo's pampered durwan, sees in her only Mamoul; he would as soon think of shaving himself as of driving her away.
Where the street ran into shops there was still a shuttered blankness, but here and there a durwan yawned and stretched himself before an open door, and a sweeper made a cloud of dust beneath a commercial verandah.
On each side are small chocolate-colored heathens, in a sort of short chemises, silver-bangled as to their wrists and ankles, and already with the caste-mark on the foreheads of some of them, shy, demure younglings, just learning all the awful significance of the word Sahib, who have been brought from mysterious homes by fond ayahs, and smuggled in through back-stairs influence, or boldly introduced by the durwan under the glorifying patronage of that terrible Hastings Clive.
He was weary and tired when he crept into the compound outside the sleeping bungalow on the hill-rise, and he stood at the gate and gave a low, clear cry, the cry of a waking bird, and a few minutes afterwards Coryndon followed Joicey's example and cursed the Durwan, kicking him as he lay snoring on his blanket.
Why not guide your bear gently in this direction, and settle the disputed boundary between Augpore and Durwan while I am on this side of my kingdom? Give me open country and room to move rather than the finest bear-pit ever built, says
"Speak no more, Lord of men and elephants; the Durwan is now outside the door, and he listens." "Good-night," said Joicey loudly, and he clicked off the light and went to bed. If the darkness was close in the large houses of the Cantonment, it was shut into the very essence of itself in the curio shop in Paradise Street.
When he came back Coryndon was standing looking through a corner of a raised chick. "The Durwan is awake," he said, without turning his head. "Call him round to the front, otherwise he may see me." "Come on, come on, man," said Hartley impatiently, "there is no time to lose." Coryndon turned and smiled at him. "This is where I go out of the case," he said.
"The Durwan," suggested Hartley. "Not the Durwan. If it had been, I would not have spoken to you about it. Heath has been visited towards morning by a man, and it was the sound of voices that awoke me.
If the lady is not receiving, he brings out a wooden box with the inscription "Mrs. What's-her-name Not at home," you drop in your cards, and drive on to the next. If the box is not out, then the durwan, taking the cards, goes in to ask if his mistress is receiving, and comes back with her salaams, and that means that one has to go in for a few minutes, but it doesn't often happen.
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