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...From Suez to Bombay, by steamer .....................13 “ From Bombay to Calcutta, by rail ................... 3 “ From Calcutta to Hong Kong,... ...and actual arrivals at each principal point Paris, Brindisi, Suez, Bombay, Calcutta, Singapore, Hong Kong, Yokohama, San Francisco, New York, and Lon-... ... passengers from Brindisi were bound for India some for Bombay, others for Calcutta by way of Bombay, the nearest route thither, now that a railway cr... ...er por- tion of this vast country, and has a governor-general stationed at Calcutta, governors at Madras, Bombay, and in Bengal, and a lieutenant-gove... ...line at many points on its route, traverses the penin- sula from Bombay to Calcutta in three days. This railway does not run in a direct line across I... ...g, clove, and pepper plantations, while the steam curled in spirals around groups of palm-trees, in the midst of which 42 Around the World in 80 Days... ...ove—that ugly old hag? Never!” The Parsee made a motion to keep silence. A group of old fakirs were capering and making a wild ado round the statue; t... ...s of the glade, which was lit up by the torches. The ground was covered by groups of the Indians, motionless in their drunken sleep; it seemed a battl... ...hem to the rear of the glade, where they were able to observe the sleeping groups. Meanwhile Passepartout, who had perched himself on the lower branch...

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... squat here and divinities five miles away—and as we came down we passed a group of five or six of them resting by the wayside. Their burthens were be... ...usins’ generation but not in their set, she was one of a small hardworking group who kept immaculate note-books, and did as much as is humanly possibl... ..., and I remember disconnectedly quite a number of brightly lit figures and groups walking about, and a white gate between orchard and garden and a lar... ...k and more particularly distin- guished by a pink bonnet joined our little group. Gertrude had been sipping admiration and was not disposed to play a ... ...ded bishop with the expression of a man in a trance completed this central group. The room was one of those long apartments once divided by folding do... ...s roving eye catches profiles and complexions that send his mind afield to Calcutta or Rangoon or the West Indies or Sierra Leone or the Cape… . I was...

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...her end of the same steps; six or eight waiters, gloved, bareheaded, and wearing their whitest linen, their whitest cravats, and their finest swallow-... ... leaving the carpetway clear. Nobody moved or spoke any more but only waited. In a short time the shrill piping of a coming train was heard, and immed... ... army on his head. Last came the Empress of Germany and the Grand Duch- Mark Twain 8 ess of Baden in a closed carriage; these passed through the low-... ... tables some fifty or seventy-five students [1. See Appendix C] were sitting. Some of them were sipping wine, others were playing cards, others chess,... ...iven him the right to retire *FROM MY DIARY.—Dined in a hotel a few miles up the Neckar, in a room whose walls were hung all over with framed por-... ...esth, 35; Cassel, 35; Lisbon, 36; Liverpool, 36; Prague, 37; Madras, 37; Bucharest, 39; St. Petersburg, 40; Trieste, 40; Alexandria (Egypt), 43; Dubli... ...tung of the day before. These telegrams consist of fourteen and two- thirds lines from Berlin, fifteen lines from Vienna, and two and five-eights line...

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...narrow spars that were lashed on each side of the hatchway, he could see a group of men squat- ting in a circle around a wooden tray piled up with ric... ... We heard about it from the chaps of the sloop Diana that was refitting in Calcutta when I was there in the Warwick Castle. They took some king’s town... ... had left their stations and stood clus- tered by the mainmast in a silent group. Not a word was spoken on the brig’s decks, while the stranger made h... ...id so as to pass a little to windward of the small islands of the Carimata group. They had been till then hidden in the night, but now both men on the... ...being able from below and in the dark- ness to make out what that confused group of men on the poop were about. He got no answer, though he could see ... ... “I drink to you all. No—no chair.” He would stand silent over the talking group. His taciturnity was as eloquent as the repeated warning of the slave...

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...e of the Medical Schools. A day came when, on the deck of a ship moored in Calcutta, I opened a letter telling me of the end of an enviable existence.... ...ht columns, four on each side of the broad flight of stairs. On the steps, groups of servants, a few relations, one or two friends from the nearest ne... ...ne edge of my conscience, that heir- loom of the ages, of the race, of the group, of the family, colourable and plastic, fashioned by the words, the l... ...hat better name could an honourable hard-working ship have? To me the very grouping of the letters is alive with the romantic feeling of her reality a...

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...of the Medi- cal Schools. A day came when, on the deck of a ship moored in Calcutta, I opened a letter telling me of the end of an enviable existence.... ...ht columns, four on each side of the broad flight of stairs. On the steps, groups of servants, a few relations, one or two friends from the nearest ne... ...fine edge of my conscience, that heirloom of the ages, of the race, of the group, of the family, colourable and plastic, fashioned by the words, the l... ...hat better name could an honourable hard-working ship have? To me the very grouping of the letters is alive with the romantic feel- ing of her reality...

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...our guests.’ Sophy gave a black look, and she retreated, but presently the groups coalesced, and Maria Drury and Sophy ran out to call Genevieve into ... ... emerged on the bowling-green, where stood the two bright targets, and the groups of archers, whose shafts, for the most part, flew far and wide. ‘Whe... ...ncing again, and Albinia tell- ing him to do his duty, he turned towards a group that had coalesced round Miss Ferrars, consisting of Lucy, Gilbert, G... ...y which she meant, how soon it might be hoped that he would be safe in the Calcutta bank, where she heartily wished him. She sought a conference with ... ...ert was very anxious that she would intercede with papa not to send him to Calcutta. ‘You now, Sophy!’ cried Albinia. ‘You who used to think nothing e... ...not say that, Sophy.’ ‘Suppose,’ continued the eager girl, ‘he went out to Calcutta, and worked these five years, and was made a part- ner. Then he wo... ... should call that constancy,’ said Albinia. ‘ And he would take her out to Calcutta, and have no Drurys and Osborns to bother her! Oh! It would be bea... ...ys passed on, till she began to think that, after all, Gil- bert preferred Calcutta, cholera, Thugs, and all, to facing his father; but at last, he mu...

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...‘Mary Baker,’ Hull; and the ‘Anandale,’ Liverpool; and the ‘T wo Sisters,’ Calcutta, and see that one they’re calking, the ‘Montevideo,’ Callao; and t... ...enemy, and how hard it was for him to keep from the round green tables and group of silent shirt-sleeved men in the card-rooms of his club. She looked... ...ther or no Condy listened. Now it was a queer bit of seaweed, now it was a group of gulls clamoring over a dead fish, now a purple starfish, now a bre... ...denly called out: “Fore!” Condy and Blix looked up sharply, and there in a group not twenty feet away, in tweeds and “knickers,” in smart, short golfi...

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... told them with pride, ‘This is the first section of railway to be constructed between Bombay and Calcutta.’ The carriages were not as luxurious as ... ...f gorges, flat-topped mountainous regions, forests and wide rivers. At last the train arrived in Calcutta and at the southern end of the City, ‘For... ...e of this Imperial Road, as it was known in Moghul times. It runs for fifteen hundred miles from Calcutta to Peshawar, within a few miles of the Khy... ...sos and heads. When the main procession had passed, Helen heard a faint tinkling sound and saw a group of men carrying little oval shaped blades att... ...built in the valley beyond the city. Most of them consisted of mud huts with thatched roofs but a group of them were situated well away from the oth... ... to the British. In his capacity as Resident, he wrote to the Governor General, Lord Canning, in Calcutta, ‘Most of the royal princes realise that t... ...nd troops under the command of Captain John MacGregor. John’s promotion had been confirmed from Calcutta only a few weeks earlier, to the delight o...

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...ned in the salon at ten o’clock. At that hour the guests were departing in groups along the street, discoursing on the game, or continuing conversa- t... ... picture of the internal habits and ways of this house, it is necessary to group around Mademoiselle Cormon and the Abbe de Sponde Jacquelin, Josette,... ... was thronged, and every one said farewell as though she were starting for Calcutta. The next day the shopkeepers would stand at their doors to see th... ...y as agitated as any diplomatic circle, where craft, ability, and passions group themselves around the grave ques- tions of an empire. The guests were... ...g to the salon, where the animation was now at its height. The lights, the group of women in their best clothes, the solemn tone, the dignified air of... ...rmon conducting certain of her favorite guests to the por- tico. There the groups parted; some followed the Bretagne road towards the chateau; the oth...

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...boys and young men among us; we had also many girls and young women. To represent, however, that we did not include a very great number, and a very fa... ...of fiction and a police report. Again: I wonder why people are always blown into the Surrey Canal, and into no other piece of water! Why do people get... ... come there, to those pillows, and taken a little evidence? My official friend declined to commit him- self to a reply. There was a sergeant, reading,... ... ‘Many?’ ‘Some, sir’ (considering the question). ‘Soldier-like. They had been long marching in the rainy season, by bad roads— no roads at all, in sho... ...rink at that time?’ The sergeant’s wan eye, happily just beginning to rekindle with health, travelled round the place and came back to me. ‘Certainly,... ...her in their lives, and were only chance companions after death. Whether or no this was the gen- eral, as it was the uncommercial, fancy, it is not to... ...te- lead worker made a pounce upon one boy who was hoisting himself up, and brought him to earth amidst general com- mendation. Closely stowed as we w...

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...f new fortunes. Glamorganshire was at least a better climate than Bute; no groups of idle or of busy reapers could here stand waiting on the guidance ... ... and Llanblethian is one of the more signal of these. A decidedly cheerful group of human homes, the greater part of them indeed belonging to persons ... ...ured and gentlemanly; and his wife, who was a renowned beauty and queen of Calcutta, has still many striking and delicate traces of what she was. Her ... ...e given up, and formed (if the room were large enough) secondary hum- ming groups of their own. He began anywhere: you put some question to him, made ... ...the blest and the intelligible:—on which occasions those secondary humming groups would all cease humming, and hang breathless upon the eloquent words... ...y in the cold spring air, under skies so unlike their own, you could see a group of fifty or a hundred stately tragic figures, in proud thread- bare c...

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...e- ments in out-of-the-way Stations are very few indeed. Then we talked in groups or together, lying under the trees, with the sun-baked roses droppin... ...es—perfectly natural causes. I mean—” “Hi! Blastoderm, you’ve given me the Calcutta Mercantile Advertiser.” 69 Rudyard Kipling The dust got up in lit... ...spectable and gentlemanly person. He travelled for an enterprising firm in Calcutta, and was all that a good husband should be. So Peythroppe came to ... ...phed to Umritsar for authority. So he waited, and four constables came and grouped themselves pictur- esquely round him. Just as he was preparing to a... ...t 4l.-10s. a head to make up freight, and sold raw and out of condition at Calcutta for Rs. 275. People who lost money on him called him a “brumby;” b... ...in recogniz- ing him. The Directors of the Bank—it had its headquarters in Calcutta and its General Manager’s word carried weight with the Government—... ...d resettle the poor wretch in bed, and to forge complimentary letters from Calcutta. At the end of the first month, Riley wished to send some money ho...

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...nor crying) looked perfectly happy. Me, she had dispensed from joining the group; saying, “She regretted to be under the necessity of keeping me at a ... ..., and to see an uncon- genial alien permanently intruded on her own family group. A singular notion dawned upon me. I doubted not—never doubted—that i... ... consolation they had. Miss Miller was now the only teacher in the room: a group of great girls standing about her spoke with serious and sullen gestu... ... pupil, Burns, I wandered as usual among the forms and tables and laughing groups without a compan- ion, yet not feeling lonely: when I passed the win... ...ouble row of great girls, and behind them the younger children crouched in groups, wrapping their starved arms in their pinafores. A little solace cam... ... all. You are much too pretty, as well as too good, to be grilled alive in Calcutta.” And again she ear- nestly conjured me to give up all thoughts of...

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...o the lama. ‘Three koss [six miles] to the westward runs the great road to Calcutta.’ ‘But I would go to Benares–to Benares.’ ‘And to Benares also. It... ...lka, he spoke uninterruptedly. Was Kim going to school? Then he, an M A of Calcutta Univer sity, would explain the advantages of education. There wer... ... vital, and the best was to be picked up in Chandernagore a few miles from Calcutta. Also a man might go far, as he himself had done, by strict attent... ...s respected. At least one third of the population prays eternally to some group or other of the many million deities, and so reveres every sort of ho... ...ore. I was right. They come to hunt for me. Thou hast saved my head.’ A group of yellow trousered Punjab policemen, headed by a hot and perspiring ... ...cote’ Kim bristled like an expectant terrier. T o outface and down talk a Calcutta taught Bengali, a voluble Dacca drug ven dor, would be a good gam... ...ad been now in Government employ. I bear a degree from the great school at Calcutta – whither, maybe, the son of this House shall go.’ ‘He shall indee...

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... they put him on board the Ramchunder East Indiaman, Cap- tain Bragg, from Calcutta, touching at Madras, and so weak and prostrate that his friend who... ...ter-deck as if he were going to turn out for Bond Street, or the Course at Calcutta. He brought a native servant with him, who was his valet and pipe-... ...e who accompanied Miss Polly. “Who’s that?” asked the Major, amused by the group, and after he had made way for the three to pass up the lane. Mary lo... ...he wine papers, here’s the sawdust, here’s the coals; here’s my letters to Calcutta and Madras, and replies from Major Dobbin, C.B., and Mr. Joseph Se... ... although provided with some of the most 97 Thackeray splendid vests that Calcutta could furnish, thought he could not go to town until he was suppli... ... them, being averse to marriage altogether. But there was no such swell in Calcutta as Waterloo Sedley, I have heard say, and he had the handsomest tu...

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...ir errand at full speed; but ere they had gone many steps they perceived a group advancing towards them, composed of the betrothed pair, a party of yo... ...ct that.” “Oh, to be sure!” responded Danglars, who had now approached the group, “nothing more than a mistake, I feel quite certain.” Dantes descende... ...eady arrived in harbor. But this vessel which, like the Pharaon, came from Calcutta, had been in for a fortnight, while no intelligence had been recei... ...n a low voice Morrel added, — “This delay is not natural. The Pharaon left Calcutta the 5th February; she ought to have been here a month ago.” “What ... ...in his belt, fell to his side. Rita lay between them. The moon lighted the group. “`Well,’ said Cucumetto, `have you executed your commission?’ “`Yes,... ...eamed the moonlight. Cucumetto stopped at last, and pointed to two persons grouped at the foot of a tree. “`There,’ said he, `demand thy child of Carl... ...fore- seen misfortune hung over his head. At length he advanced toward the group, the meaning of which he could not comprehend. As he approached, Carl... ...stuffs, dyed beneath Persia’s sun, or woven by the fingers of the women of Calcutta or of Chandernagor. What these stuffs did there, it was impossible...

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... detach- ment arrived to carry off the revenues which he had collected, to Calcutta. Luckily, at this time he caught a liver complaint, for the cure o... ...vernor-General’s lady her- self—and what a sensation she would make at the Calcutta balls. “It’s evident the poor devil’s in love with me,” thought he... ...h clock. When that chronometer, which was surmounted by a cheer- ful brass group of the sacrifice of Iphigenia, tolled five in a heavy cathedral tone,... ... to the fair ladies within. He wished all Cheltenham, all Chowringhee, all Calcutta, could see him in that position, waving his hand to such a beauty,...

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...is the same everywhere, in Moscow as in London, in Geneva as in 23 Balzac Calcutta. Given a certain number of families of unequal for- tune in any gi... ...ould not refuse to accept it. When he 47 Balzac fell back again among the groups of men gathered at a dis- tance from the women, his friends congratu...

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...xed to the full stretch of their strength; while from cloudy Darjiling the Calcutta Mail whirled up the last straggler of the little army that was to ... ...eople, and the like of that all up and down the coun- try from Peshawur to Calcutta, you would find us mostly in a tale together. And yet you know we’... ... poured ironical scorn on the Bengali. He and one of his brothers had seen Calcutta, and being at work there had Bengali carpenters given to them as a... ...ard Kipling Pagett’s attention, however, was diverted to the gate, where a group of cultivators stood in ap- parent hesitation. “Here are the twelve A... ...f the people is to gather in small self-contained, self-suffic- ing family groups with no thought or care for any interests but their own-a habit whic... ...lt the merchants and chambers of commerce in Cawnpore, Madras, Bombay, and Calcutta. But though these bodies would like, as Reggie puts it, to make Go...