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What think you, Elphinstone, of the idea of taking a cruise up to the village, to see how matters stand there? Or, would you rather remain here, and await developments? Hillo! whom have we here, and what does he want? Surely the fellow is signalling to us, and trying to attract our attention! D'ye see him, Elphinstone?"
On going to Rome I required a good many books for continuing my work on "Physical Geography," and had got "Transactions of the Geographical Society" and other works sent from London, The Hon. Mountstuart Elphinstone who was then at Rome, was an old acquaintance of ours.
"Journal of a Cruise among the Islands of the Pacific," by Captain J Elphinstone Erskine, RN, page 100.
Sir Elphinstone, with Miss Sally on his arm, reached the car while yet Tilda struggled in the gateway. A policeman roughly ordered her back. She feigned to obey, and dropping out of sight, crawled forth past the policeman's boots, with her head almost butting the calves of a slow-moving yeoman farmer.
"One of 48,000 times, which should bring the moon within an apparent distance of five miles; and, in order to be visible, objects need not have a diameter of more than nine feet." "So, then," cried J. T. Maston, "our projectile need not be more than nine feet in diameter." "Let me observe, however," interrupted Major Elphinstone, "this will involve a weight such as "
"And you are all quite happy together! I thought you were going to stay at the West, Rose?" "I could not be spared any longer; they could not do without me." "And are you going to keep house for Harry, at Elphinstone house, or is Mr Millar to have that?" And so on, till she was tired, at last, and went away. "What nonsense that woman talks, to be sure!" said Rose.
Elphinstone as a gradual oblivion of monotheism, the neglect of the worship of some gods and the introduction of others, the worship of deified mortals. The doctrine of human deification is carried to such an extent that Indra and other mythological gods are said to tremble lest they should be supplanted by men.
Elphinstone and Mr. Gavin Smeaton were talking together in low voices near the door. Presently Murray turned to us. "We can do no more here, now, Mr. Lindsey," he said, "and I'm going to lock this place up until daylight and leave a man in the gateway below, on guard. But as to the next step you haven't the least idea in your head, Moneylaws, about Hollins's assailant?" he went on, turning to me.
All men whose experience gave weight to their words opposed this 'preposterous enterprise. Mr Elphinstone, who had been the head of a mission to Cabul thirty years earlier, held that 'if an army was sent up the passes, and if we could feed it, no doubt we might take Cabul and set up Shah Soojah; but it was hopeless to maintain him in a poor, cold, strong and remote country, among so turbulent a people. Lord William Bentinck, Lord Auckland's predecessor, denounced the project as an act of incredible folly.
I must speak to Fanny about it." "We saw Miss Elphinstone often during the first winter after her return. That was the winter that Mr Proudfute remembers as so gay," said Graeme. "Did I ever tell you about the beginning of Rosie's acquaintance with her, long before that, when she wandered into the garden and saw the gowans?" "Yes, dear, you told me about it in a letter," said Mrs Snow.
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