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And so did my Lady Castlemaine once; but when she saw Moll Davis she looked like fire, which troubled me. May 31, 1669. Up very betimes, and continued all the morning examining my accounts, in order to the fitting myself to go abroad beyond sea, which the ill-condition of my eyes and my neglect hath kept me behindhand in.
In spite of its ill-condition Crosby wondered whether it would not be too much for the musician, who mounted awkwardly and seemed so intent on keeping his seat that he was not able to talk. He had grown more accustomed to the animal by the time they came out on to the high road.
The fiddler's lean nag, either from ill-condition or over-work, or perchance both, could do little more than amble along, falling back into a walking pace at every opportunity. Perhaps it was as well, Crosby thought, for the fiddler seemed strangely uneasy in the saddle, and more than once apologised for his want of dexterity when he noticed his companion glance at him.
Residences for the Governor Parell Its Gardens Profusion of Roses Receptions at Government-house The evening-parties The grounds and gardens of Parell inferior to those at Barrackpore The Duke of Wellington partial to Parell Anecdotes of his Grace in India Sir James Mackintosh His forgetfulness of India The Horticultural Society Malabar Point, a retreat in the hot weather The Sea-view beautiful The nuisance of fish Serious effects at Bombay of the stoppage of the trade with China Ill-condition of the poorer classes of Natives Frequency of Fires Houses of the Parsees Parsee Women Masculine air of the other Native Females of the lower orders who appear in public Bangle-shops Liqueur-shops Drunkenness amongst Natives not uncommon here, from the temptations held out The Sailors' Home Arabs, Greeks, Chinamen The latter few and shabby Portuguese Padres Superiority of the Native Town of Bombay over that of Calcutta Statue of Lord Cornwallis Bullock-carriages High price and inferiority of horses in Bombay Hay-stacks Novel mode of stacking.
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