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Accompanied by the feeble old maharajah himself, I was conducted to an apartment across which a heavy curtain was suspended. After an interval of waiting, the rustle of silken garments behind the purdah, followed by the gentle sigh of a woman, told me that my patient had arrived. It was the husband himself who bade her thrust her tongue through an orifice in the curtain.
"You must understand," he said, in a tone which he tried to make one of explanation for her enlightenment rather than of apology for Dorothea "you must understand that girls have a good deal of liberty in America." "They have everywhere," she rejoined. "Even in France, where they've been kept so strictly, the old law of Purdah has been more or less relaxed."
Good roads and better police arrangements also lessen the terrors of travelling in places where railways are still wanting. Trapped by a Cobra Not many years ago a young married lady was journeying alone. It is not customary in India for young women, even if married, to go out by themselves. The purdah system unfits them for independence.
But Nana Sahib, knowing perfectly well what this observation would do to the austere, exact, dominating daughter of a precise man, the Resident, muttered to himself: "Colossal ass! an impressionable cuss should have a purdah hung over his soul or be gagged." "One of their nautch girls, I suppose;" Elizabeth thus eased some of the irritation over Barlow's admiration in a well-bred sneer.
The Duke of Wellington himself, though Candle Court was his purdah, could never have broken the taboo of even so modest a club as Pickering's. Owing to the absence of Agg, who had gone to Wales with part of her family, the studio in Manresa Road was equally closed to the pair. Marguerite was first at the rendezvous. George saw her walking sedately near the entrance.
"Indian leaders look with alarm at the possibility of a female India of the type of the West. They would like the purdah system to be removed, females to be educated, to get the franchise, and still for them to keep their modesty.
So don't you take all his opinions for gospel; like my grandfather's, they are well meant, but obsolete. If only you had courage, Arúna-ji, to accept the enlightened husband, who might not keep you in strict purdah, then we could work together for liberation of the Mother. Sing Bande Mátaram, forty thousand brothers! That is our battle-cry. And one of those is your own fond brother Dyán Singh."
"If I keep out of purdah, becoming Brahmo Samaj ... perhaps " She drew in her full lower lip to steady it. "But the marriage of arrangement I cannot. I have read too many English books, thought too many English thoughts. And I know in here" one clenched hand smote her breast "that now I could not give my body and life to any man, unless heart and mind are given too. And for me.... Must I tell all?
"You see the child came regularly to my purdah parties," she explained to Roy, who was impatient no longer, only absorbed. "Sometimes I had her alone for reading and music; and it was heart-breaking to see her wilting away before my eyes. So, at last, in desperation, I broke loose as Vinx politely puts it and asked searching questions, regardless of etiquette.
"Young woman" was how he thought of her; she didn't correspond to anything so prim and restrained and extensively reserved and withheld as a "young lady "; and though he judged her no older than five and twenty, the word "girl" with its associations of virginal ignorances, invisible purdah, and trite ideas newly discovered, seemed even less appropriate for her than the word "boy."
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