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Twice in the course of the next day Secundra and the Master must have appeared to themselves to have escaped; and twice they were circumvented.
"Indeed," said a well-known artist to us in the gallery of the Louvre, in presence of this marvelous creation, "the sculptor himself, were he living, could not repeat his work. It was a ray of inspiration caught from Heaven." So we thought of the Moli Musjed. The Tomb of Akbar at Secundra was visited, a few miles from Agra.
"What's this?" Secundra leaped in the air, a little breathless cry escaped him, the tool flew from his grasp, and he stood one instant staring at the speaker. The next, swift as an arrow, he sped for the woods upon the farther side; and the next again, throwing up his hands with a violent gesture of resolution, he had begun already to retrace his steps.
I tell you pretty good hurry: you help, you light a fire, help rub." "What is the creature talking of?" cried Sir William. "My head goes round." "I tell you I bury him alive," said Secundra. "I teach him swallow his tongue. Now dig him up pretty good hurry, and he not much worse. You light a fire." Sir William turned to the nearest of his men. "Light a fire," said he.
"Ha!" said I, "is this you?" and I was pleased with the unconcern of my own voice. "It is even myself, worthy Mackellar," says the Master. "This time you have brought the black dog visibly upon your back," I continued. "Referring to Secundra Dass?" asked the Master. "Let me present you. He is a native gentleman of India." "Hum!" said I. "I am no great lover either of you or your friends, Mr.
He drew himself up, and looked about the hall at the dark rows of portraits. "In the name of my ancestors, I thank you," says he; and then, with a return to irony, "But there must certainly be an allowance for Secundra Dass?" he said. "It in not possible they have omitted that?" "I will make a note of it, and ask instructions when I write," said I.
"My God!" cried Mountain, "he was as smooth as a baby when we laid him there!" "They say hair grows upon the dead," observed Sir William; but his voice was thick and weak. Secundra paid no heed to our remarks, digging swift as a terrier in the loose earth.
An old Brahmin of Secundra Rao narrated that some years before 1810 the harvest was so plentiful that on the occasion he built a house which was on a very high plinth: he filled the plinth instead of with mud with an inferior course of small grain called 'kodun, selling at that time uncommonly cheap, much lower than the cost of mud would be; when the famine came he dug up the coarse grain, which was found good, and sold it, and with the money he made his house a pucka one, besides gaining a large sum in coin."
If Secundra Dass knew and concealed his knowledge of English, Harris was a proficient in several of the tongues of India, and as his career in that part of the world had been a great deal worse than profligate, he had not thought proper to remark upon the circumstance. Each side had thus a spy-hole on the counsels of the other.
A German missionary received me kindly; and, in addition to his hospitality, was obliging enough to show me personally whatever there was of interest in the town and neighbourhood. Our first visit was to the beautiful mausoleum of the Sultan Akbar, at Secundra, four miles from Agra. The porch which leads into the garden is a masterpiece. I stood before it for a long time amazed.
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