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The Jaipur Residency had come to seem almost like home. And the magnet of home drew all that was Eastern in Roy. It was the British blood in his veins that drove him afield. Though India was his objective, England was the impelling force. His true home seemed hundreds of miles away, in more senses than one.
Having made these arrangements, Thomas consented to join Vaman Rao, the son of his former patron, in a foray upon the Raja of Jaipur; and in this was nearly slain, only escaping with the loss of his lieutenant, John Morris, and some hundreds of his best men.
Back in the Jaipur Residency, in the garden that was 'almost England, back in his good familiar tweed coat and breeches, the whole Delhi interlude seemed strangely theatrical and unreal; more like a vivid dream than an experience in the flesh. But there was Dyán to prove it no dream; and the perilous charm of Arúna, that must be resisted to the best of his power....
Thea, however, had counselled patience, threatening him with dire disillusion, if he went seeking his wonderland at that glaringly unpoetic time of day. "An early cup of tea, and a ride afterwards," she prescribed, in her best autocratic manner. "Only sunset, or the first glimmer of dawn, can throw a spell over the municipal virtues and artistic backslidings of Jaipur!
Some information of his plans seems to have reached the ears of Akbar whilst he was paying his annual visit to Ajmere in 1576-7, and he despatched his most trusted general, also a Rájpút, the Mán Singh of Jaipur, whom we have seen fighting by his side in Gujarát, with five thousand horse, to beat him up. The two opposing forces met at Huldíghát, called also Gogandah, in December 1576.
We could have hired a motor and rushed out for a hurried visit to Fatehpur-Sighri, and there was temptation in the idea; but we decided to content ourselves with the abundant food for eye and mind which we had in these two wonderful buildings, and in the evening we took the train for Jaipur. Saturday, October 21.
Then, I think, Udaipur 'last, loneliest, loveliest, apart' to knock my novel into shape before I go North. And you ?" He pensively took stock of his volcanic cousin. "Sure you're safe not to erupt again?" "Safe as houses thanks to you. That doesn't mean I can be orthodox Hindu and work for the orthodox Jaipur Raj.
And now here he was tripped up again by his all-too-human capacity for emotion as at Jaipur. The comparison jerked him. The two experiences, like the two women, had almost nothing in common. The charm of Arúna with its Eastern mingling of the sensuous and spiritual was a charm he intimately understood. It combined a touch of the earth with a rarefied touch of the stars.
Let us, for a small time, not remember that all outside is Jaipur and the desert dusty and hot and cruel; and dark places full of secret and terrible things. Here we are safe. Here it is almost England!" Her gallant appeal so moved him, and the lighter vein so charmingly became her, that Roy humoured her mood willingly enough....
After Kashmir, where Sir Amar Singh is the only native who mixes at all with the English, it was interesting to see and meet on terms of good-fellowship these Rajput aristocrats. Sunday, October 22. The city of Jaipur is, I think, principally interesting as being modern and enlightened among those of the native states.
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