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Flinging aside palette and brushes, he caught her hands in his, and it cost her an effort to preserve her lightness of tone. "Nothing blood-curdling, since you see me without bruise or scratch. Only Yorick and I got tangled up with a herd of buffaloes on the Kajiar Road.
His mouth and throat were parched. His every nerve clamoured for the accustomed narcotic. But pipe and tobacco-pouch reposed in his breast-pocket untouched. "Ah, Love, but a day, And the world has changed!" Browning. An early return journey had been advocated by all experienced weather prophets of the mushroom colony of Kajiar.
A week had passed since his astounding experience on the Kajiar Road; a week in which the hours of sleep had been a more negligible quantity than usual; in which he had fought squarely against an imperative need to escape from the haunting consciousness of his wife's presence, and had been squarely beaten.
For instance, I find that essential beauty I spoke of in Mrs Olliver's face." "Ah . . . so do I; of a rare quality." "Well then, dear stupid, allow me to find it in yours also!" "One to you," he admitted, smiling. "But now . . . I am in your hands till tiffin. What are you going to do with me? Read? Sing? The drawing-room's empty; and I haven't heard you since Kajiar."
For Hindus are the most devout Nature-worshippers on the face of the earth. To them, beauty of place translates itself as God's direct cry to the soul; and in the isolated glade of Kajiar, with its sweep of shelving turf, its encircling pines and deodars, and its towering snow-peaks standing sentinel in the north, deity reigns supreme; deity and the great grey ape of the Himalayas.
Girls can't always analyse new feelings of that sort. I can see now that it was chiefly mental sympathy between us, on my side at least. But I only discovered that when the real thing came in a flash." "When was that?" he asked on a note of eagerness. "One May morning on the Kajiar road! I knew then that I must have cared always, without guessing it.
He asked me to tell you, from him, that you would be doing them both a very real kindness by going with Mrs Desmond; and I thought . . you would be glad of a chance to help either of them; especially since you must know, after all I said at Kajiar, that it is impossible . . yet for us to start fair and square." It was a long speech for Eldred, and it brought her down from the stars.
"It occurred to me nearly a year ago," he said simply. "After our talk at Kajiar, I faced the fact that there was an end of my exploring as a hobby; at least on the big scale that appeals to me most. It was just the price one had to pay for getting you back again; and I paid it willingly. In fact, I should never have mentioned it, if you hadn't dragged it out of me."
He had been out on the Kajiar road 'taking notes, and he flourished a sketch-book at her by way of greeting. "Tea, chérie? Ah, c'est bien. I am thirsty!" She flung out her left hand and took possession of the book. "Pour it out yourself, there's a dear; and mine too." "Voil
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