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Updated: May 31, 2025
Many Brahmans stand round the throne on which rests the idol, fanning it with horsetail plumes, coloured, the handles of which are all overlaid with gold; these plumes are tokens of the highest dignity; they also fan the king with them.
Kagig came galloping back and found us four met together by a little horsetail waterfall. He ordered her peremptorily to hurry and find Monty, but she simply ignored him. In another moment he was too bent on shepherding the ammunition cases to give her a further thought. Men began to gather around him, and he to issue orders. They had either to kill him or obey.
"But the gentleman said that if the minister saw his name, he would most assuredly see him." Vaudrey took the card that was extended to him on the tray: "Jéliotte! He is right. Show him in." He removed his hat and went straight toward the door, that was then opened to admit a pale-faced, lean man with long black whiskers that formed a sort of horsetail fringe to his face.
Leave it all to me!" He was an American, he said, but spoke vernacular French. The other two civilians were a London chartered accountant and a Canadian volunteer a young Oxford man waiting for his regiment. Across the table, a big French dragoon, just in from the firing-line, his horsetail helmet on the chair beside him, was also dining.
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