This is whatmakes sensible people home-sick for the
East.
Astonishing, how early the ancestors of this family
began life, andwhat a zest they threw into it!
I think we have something to learn from Mother
India. The words of theChristian nuptial service expressly say so. Everything had
been cleared away except those glasses, which mywaiters had overlooked. Crawford
often told me that he had gone to India with no intention ofbecoming a writer. No
criminal worth his salt can afford to be uneducated.
What if the clockis going backwards instead of
forwards? In raising the educational level, what are we really raising?
That is one reason why Hindus are divided
intocastes. Well, I hope youre right, I said, and, still grumbling vigorously,paid
for the article.
And the red velvet seats, my pet
aversion.
Her scientific crimes are every bit as
atrocious.
Thevision of curry will remain clear-cut to your
dying breath. Had he been reading the daily paper or the last novel youcould tell at
once.
These poor devils have caught our European disease,
and thesymptoms in both cases are identical.
With a few passes hecould cure my worst insomnia,
and send me into a dreamless sleep. Governmental altruism, in India and out of it,
always ends in heaviertaxation.
Thevision of curry will remain clear-cut to your
dying breath.
Everything had been cleared away except those
glasses, which mywaiters had overlooked. What fools they must have looked, these
titled folk, V.
This public airing of soiled linen is vulgar,
un-Asiatic.
And the red velvet seats, my pet aversion. Then
they obligingly made enquiries onmy behalf. This is a grave moral misdeed to be laid
to thecharge of Mother India.