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Gregory, in spite of multifarious occupations as the firm's vice-reine, had by no means forgotten pretty Miss Leigh, nor her cousin's emphatic instructions; the girl had failed to accompany her to the Gymkhana dance "her aunt was ill; she had been unable to leave her" a stereotyped excuse to every invitation. The truth was that Mrs.
We decided rather to extract as much pleasure and amusement out of the Christmas festivities as the extraordinary circumstances in which we found ourselves rendered possible. The British for the time being desisted from troubling us, and our stock and horses being in excellent condition, we arranged to hold a sort of gymkhana on Christmas Day.
Krauss had vouchsafed no notice of his visit and card; her niece was never to be seen either at the Gymkhana, or on the lakes the principal meeting-places for young and old. When Shafto rode in the mornings, he eyed expectantly every passing or approaching habit, but Sophy Leigh was never among the early cavalcade for the excellent reason that she had no horse. Mrs.
I glanced at Raffles, and in the white light of his torch he was doing it all with his ankles, exactly as though he had been riding in a Gymkhana. "It's the most sporting chase I was ever in," said he. "All my fault!" "My dear Bunny, I wouldn't have missed it for the world!"
He felt as if, in spite of him, his photographs were turning into a picture gallery, and his bicycle into a gymkhana. But no one had any time to criticize these impromptu estates and offices, for they followed each other in wild succession like the topics of a rambling talker. Existence with such a man was an obstacle race made out of pleasant obstacles.
'He has behaved, she said angrily, 'just like Captain Kerrington's pony only Otis is a donkey at the last Gymkhana. Planted his forefeet and refused to go on another step. Polly, my man's going to disappoint me. What shall I do? As a rule, Mrs. Mallowe does not approve of staring, but on this occasion she opened her eyes to the utmost. 'You have managed cleverly so far,'she said.
About half-way on the road to the government house is the Gymkhana, and I venture to say that nobody who has not been in India can guess what that means. And if you want another conundrum, what is a chotohazree? It is customary for smart people to have their chotohazree at the Gymkhana, and I think that you would be pleased to join them after taking the beautiful drive which leads to the place.
When during tiffin he hesitatingly conveyed the invitation Violet said: "Oh, I don't want to be bothered with women, my dear boy. Take me out and show me the place and the shops and the Gymkhana what do you call it here? Oh, the Amusement Club. No, stop a minute. Mrs. Dermot is your dear friend from Ranga Duar, isn't she? So she's here. And the other, the jungle girl, where is she?"
But if he would persist in playing the Trappist monk, what the devil was a fellow to do? Even over the Gymkhana programme, there had been an undercurrent of friction. Lance in his new vein had wanted to keep the women out of it; while Roy in his new vein couldn't keep at least one of them out, if he tried.
It was to be a baiga, or gymkhana, and early in the morning small parties of horsemen were seen gathering to the great plain where the wild sport was to take place. When the sun was at its height I was escorted to the arena by forty-two Kirghizes, who rode beside and behind me.
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