Letters of Marque
Book Description
We do not, to quote the Calcutta shopkeeper, come out for the good of our ealth, and what touring we accomplish is for the most part off the line of rail. For these reasons, and because he wished to study our winter birds of passage, one of the few thousand Englishmen in I ndia, on a date and in a place which have no concern with the story, sacrificed all his self-respect and became at enormous pe...
MoreWe do not, to quote the Calcutta shopkeeper, come out for the good of our ealth, and what touring we accomplish is for the most part off the line of rail. For these reasons, and because he wished to study our winter birds of passage, one of the few thousand Englishmen in I ndia, on a date and in a place which have no concern with the story, sacrificed all his self-respect and became at enormous personal inconvenience a Globe-T rotter going to Jeypore, and leaving behind him for a little while all that old wellknown life in which Commissioners and Deputy Commissioners, Governors and Lieutenant-G overnors, A ides-de-C amp, Colonels and their wives, Majors, Captains and Subalterns after their kind move and rule and govern and squabble and fight and sell each others horses, and tell wicked stories of their neighbours. But before he had fully settled into his part or accustomed himself to saying Please take out this luggage to the coolies at the stations, he saw from the train the Taj wrapped in the mists of the morning.
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