Ten years in India; or, The life of a young officer, Volume 1 |
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Page 52 - All my senses seemed to desire to veil themselves and, feeling that I was about to slip from them, I pressed the palms of my hands together until they trembled, murmuring: "O love! O love!
Page 215 - The horsemen sit like fixed candlesticks, With torch-staves in their hands ; and their poor jades Lob down their heads, dropping the hides and hips, The gum down-roping from their pale-dead eyes, And in their pale dull mouths the gimmal bit 1 Lies foul with chew'd grass, still and motionless; And their executors, the knavish crows, Fly o'er them, all impatient for their hour.
Page 201 - Madras from 1833 to 1843: officers belonging to regiments stationed in Madras are frequently thrown amongst these dark-eyed bewitching syrens, and are very liable to become smitten with their charms. I must say the young women are very pretty, notwithstanding their color. The consequences of associating with them are almost inevitable. Young, unthinking ensigns and lieutenants easily fall into the trap set for them ....¿ The...
Page 105 - They are looked upon by their fellow countrymen as the most degraded of all castes. The worst characters in our regiments are Christians! And it is no uncommon thing to have some such remark as the following made, " He is a great blackguard, he is a parriah Christian!" A servant presents himself for employment, and is asked what caste he is? The reply is " I master's caste, I Christian, sar.
Page 122 - I went up to where the confusion was, and to my great horror beheld the said havildar seized hold of and pinioned by some riflemen, and marched off by a section of the Light Company under its captain towards the mainguard. Presently the major rode up, and I asked him what it was all about? He told me that the havildar had shot the brigadier.
Page 84 - They thought him the nicest grandpapa in all the world ; and I think I am not far wrong in saying that he thought that no nicer grandchildren than his, were anywhere to he found.