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10th Hussars afterwards Aides-de-Camp Annandale April Arrived in Simla Auckland House Bank Barnes Court bazaar beautiful Bengal Bishop Cotton School bridge building Bungalow Calcutta camping ground Capt Captain cemetery club Colonel Colyear Commander-in-Chief coolies Council Cross Curzon Dalhousie deodar Department descent died dinner Dogri erected European Extra feet flowers Foot forest garden Government of India Gurkha hill Himalayas Hon'ble Hotel Hume Hussars Huttoo improved Jakko Jutogh Kennedy House Lady lakhs Lancers Left Simla Lieut Lieut.-Col Lord Curzon Lord Dufferin Lord Lytton Lord William Lord William Beresford Madame Blavatzky Major Mall March Mashobra Medical Officer ment Messrs miles Military Secretary Municipal Name of Stage native November occupied October Pass Peterhoff play present Private Secretary Punjab Punjab Government REMARKS residence road Rothney Castle season slopes Snowdon staff station supplies and water Surgeon Sutlej theatre trees Viceregal Lodge Viceroy village wife
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Page 17 - For the Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills; a land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates ; a land of oil olive, and honey; a land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass.
Page 26 - I hang like a roof, The mountains its columns be. The triumphal arch through which I march With hurricane, fire, and snow, When the powers of the air are chained to my chair, Is the million-coloured bow; The sphere-fire above its soft colours wove, While the moist earth was laughing below.
Page 142 - The best actors in the world, either for tragedy, comedy, history, pastoral, pastoral-comical, historical-pastoral, tragical-historical, tragical-comical-historical-pastoral, scene individable, or poem unlimited : Seneca cannot be too heavy, nor Plautus too light.
Page 130 - India at least, — and every available space, nook and cranny, were filled with gold and jewelled ornaments, shining weapons, or uncouth but resplendent idols. There were sabres in scabbards set from end to end with diamonds and sapphires, with cross hilts of rubies in massive gold mounting, the spoil of some worsted rajah or Nawab of the mutiny. There were narghyles four feet high, crusted with gems and curiously wrought work from Baghdad or Herat; water flasks of gold and drinking cups of jade;...
Page 160 - A successful speculator, or a "merchant prince" may force his way into good society in England . . . but in India he must remain for ever outside the sacred barrier, which keeps the non-official world from the high society of the services.
Page 166 - Circean retreat," come in for their share of moral condemnation, as contributing to the undeserved happiness of a thoughtless and voluptuous community. For this view there is some show of justification. Simla has no open law courts to speak of, or shipping, or mercantile business, or any of the thousand incidents which furnish so much matter to the newspapers of a great city. The large amount of important governmental business which is transacted there is seldom immediately made known, and is usually...
Page 99 - Twenty years ago no European had ever been here, and there we were, with the band playing the 'Puritani ' and ' Masaniello,' and eating salmon from Scotland, and sardines from the Mediterranean, and observing that St. Cloup's potage a la Julienne was perhaps better than his other soups, and that some of the ladies' sleeves were too tight according to the overland fashions for March, &c.