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Agnes Aloysius answered asked ayah Bhutpur carriage Carteret chair Charles Verity charming child Clatworthy Colonel Verity Colonel Waterhouse colour Commissioner Sahib cried crinoline Damaris dear Delhi dolls door Egeria emotion eyes face father feel felt fox terrier Gardiner gharry girl give hand head hear heart Henrietta Pereira Hockless horses Imogen Hobday Ismail Jimmy Josepha Maria Kankarpur knew lady laugh Lesbia less light looked LUCAS MALET Lugard Mackinder Maidan marriage Maurice McCabe means ment mind Miss Hobday morning muslin Nannie never night nursery once passed person play poor pretty rose round Sarah Watson sense servants shoulders sleep smile soul speak stood sturve Sultan-i-bagh sure talk tamarind tell things Thomas Clarkson thought tion told took Tulsi turned verandah Verity's voice waiting woman words young
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