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...tury India by Audrey Blankenhagen. The exotic beauty of India, her British rulers living in splendid isolation; the opulence and intrigue of a Muslim Royal Court; the machinations of a sinister cult of Kali; the horrors of the Indian Mutiny: are the themes woven into the rich backcloth of ?THE CURSE OF KALI?. In this turbulent setting are a man and a woman whose destinies ...

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...ent prepared by her merchants and, with the flourish of her famous signature and the stamp of the Royal Seal, granted a Charter to the Honourable Ea... ...ousekeeper and nursemaid to their young child. She looked up as Helen stood in the doorway, with flushed cheeks and shining eyes, displaying all th... ...arrying out their pernicious trade and no doubt the Arab captains thought our merchant ship was a Royal Navy vessel.’ A more felicitous event was t... ...inued their long journey, this time (as a rail link had not yet been constructed) along the river Ganges by wooden, gaily-painted barges towed by a ... ...ver bank. Had it spotted a corpse amidst all the flotsam and jetsam of the muddy waters of Mother Ganga? The barges passed little Indian villages an... ... the British.’ From Allahabad, another sacred city at the confluence of the two holy rivers, the Ganges and the Jumna, the party left the river boat... ... As they approached the Residency, large iron gates bearing the East India Company’s crest - the Royal Arms and the flag of St. George - were opene... ...es of his own, his dark eyes glinting with a quizzical, teasing expression. Helen felt her cheeks flush again and was more than a little irritated w... ...d her and held her at arms length, his frustration twisting his lips in a crooked smile, his face flushed with emotion, his dark eyes burning into h...

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...tomach where his clearly defined abs proved he took care of himself. She flushed with embarrassment from ogling him. Laylah glanced at his face – hi... ...ifted position and kept himself in front of Laylah. Gerard snarled and his gang shuffled about. “No can do. The boss wants her, the boss gets her. Get... ...u are strong. But I didn’t come here to lose.” Gerard growled low and his gang stopped where they were. Laylah felt the hairs stand up on her body an... ...y’ve followed her scent and it went into the forest as did Gerard and his gang.” “I just got here and do not have all the reports. Bring Byron to me ... ...lled you, and you didn’t tell me?” Kattcha glanced at her son and saw him flush in anger. “Yeah, I was letting him know I had information about Layla... ...ut why?” She turned around, reluctant to step free of his arms. It put her flush against his body, but the familiar fear of being close to another di... ... stood. Ignoring Stefan’s fury, Donil pondered what to do. “Well, if your Royal Pain has finished throwing around your weight, I’m leaving. I have ca...

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...rifying that consciousness is adding impurity to it. Consciousness has to flush itself out, it has to purge itself of every trace of holiness, every... ...—then the floodgates are open and everything goes out. In that process of flushing out you have all these visions. It's not a vision outside there or... ...urpose is achieved they have finished their job and they go away. But this flushing out of everything good and bad, holy and unholy, sacred and profa... ...ble to free ourselves from the psychological rubbish, Freud and the whole gang. Just what exactly do you mean by consciousness? You are conscious,... ...o submit to them the only recourse you have is to use violence. So all the gangsters get together and create a legal structure which is favorable to ... ..., were all worshiped. Later, the kings revolted against that and then the royal family came to be admired and worshiped. Where are they now? Others ... ...e to be admired and worshiped. Where are they now? Others have eliminated royalty and have created the office of the president. We are told that you...

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...rly life. III. Tom?s meeting with the Prince. IV. The Prince?s troubles begin. V. Tom as a patrician. VI. Tom receives instructions. VII. Tom?s first royal dinner. VIII. The question of the Seal. IX. The river pageant. X. The Prince in the toils. XI. At Guildhall. XII. The Prince and his deliverer. XIII. The disappearance of the Prince....

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...e. IV. The Prince’s troubles begin. V. Tom as a patrician. VI. Tom receives instructions. VII. Tom’s first royal dinner. VIII. The question of... ...ll who knew him except his own family— these, only, saw nothing in him. Privately, after a while, Tom organised a royal court! He was the prince; his ... ...e was the prince; his special comrades were guards, chamberlains, equerries, lords and ladies in waiting, and the royal family. Daily the mock prince ... ... manners, thou young beggar!” The crowd jeered and laughed; but the young prince sprang to the gate with his face flushed, and his eyes flashing with ... ...out went up at this, and one rude fellow said— “Marry, art thou his grace’s messenger, beggar?” The prince’s face flushed with anger, and his ready ha... ...ent, and with mine own hand will I seal the warrant that rids me of—” His voice failed; an ashen pallor swept the flush from his cheeks; and the atten... ...e of starveling curs, with strings about their necks, whose office was to lead the blind. The night was come, the gang had just finished feast- ing, a... ...ning. In the course of it, it appeared that ‘John Hobbs’ was not altogether a new recruit, but had trained in the gang at some former time. His later ... ... to stay, and never more venture country-wards—but the accident has ended that.” He inquired how many persons the gang numbered now. The ‘ruffler,’ or...

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..., honest yellow. The skin of her face was clean and white, except where it flushed to a most charming pink upon her smooth, cool cheeks. Her lips were... ...the sea. T ravis was delighted, her little brown eyes snapping, her cheeks flushing, as she drank in the scene. “To think,” she cried, “where all thes... ..., dodging drays and rum- bling trucks, and finally brought up at the after gang- plank, where a sailor halted them. Condy exhibited his reporter’s bad... ... had seen nothing. There were a lot of men there belonging to the wrecking gang, and some correspondents of London papers. But they would have it that... ...e, and the three drank in silence. As Travis and Condy were going down the gang- plank they met the captain of the whaleback coming up. “I saw you in ... ...ed mist without form or outline. The sloe-brown of her little eyes and the flush of her cheek were mere inferences—like the faintest stars that are ne... ...rd. The old Y ankee—his twang and dry humor singularly incongruous on that royal morning—was solicitude itself. He picked out the best boat on the bea... ...ocean was blue was a matter for rejoicing. It was good to be alive on that royal morn- ing. Just to be young was an exhilaration; and every- thing was...

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...ever thought to speak to any man. Why do you seek to keep me, then? Let me gang back — let me gang back to the friends I have, and that like me!” “Na,... ...y win into it from the outside, for that part of the house is no finished. Gang ye in there, and up the stairs, and bring me down the chest that’s at ... ...om him. This threw me back on Ransome, who seemed the least wicked of that gang, and who soon came out of the inn and ran to me, crying for a bowl of ... ...recall an air; only what he was trying was to make one. All the while, the flush was in his face, and his eyes were as bright as a five-year-old child... ...her; and, besides (as he said), it belonged to a king and so behoved to be royally looked after. For all that, when I saw what care he took to pluck o... ... a man and a halfling boy upon the other! O, man, it’s peetiful!” Hoseason flushed red. “No,” continued Alan, “that’ll no do. Ye’ll just have to set m... ...he reins. The first was a great, red-headed gentleman, of an imperious and flushed face, who carried his hat in his hand and fanned himself, for he 1... ...ich is a queer, rude place for certain, but one where I have entertained a royal person- age, Mr. Stewart — ye doubtless ken the personage I have in m... ...to our meal. “They,” said he, meaning the collops, “are such as I gave his Royal Highness in this very house; bating the lemon juice, for at that time...

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...d. They waited through one suffocating week till Prout and King were their royal selves again; waited till there was a house-match—their own house, to... ...such as they may be, are hanging in the balance. I see! Ah, I see! The old gang of criminals—allied forces of disorder—Corkran”—the Slave of the Lamp ... ..., as it were, a poet?” “He’s found one of ‘em,” thought Beetle, noting the flush on King’s cheek-bone. Rudyard Kipling “I have just had the pleasure ... ...or- rect his caesuras for him.” He disappeared down two flights of stairs, flushed a small pink and white boy in a form-room next door to King’s study... ...attray unguardedly. “Ah! The learned Lipsius is airing himself, is he? His Royal Highness has gone to fumigate.” McTurk climbed on the railings, where... ...e.” There was no doubting the sincerity of the voices. The Rev- erend John flushed a little with pleasure and refilled his briar. “And we generally kn... ... Hat, what bullies they were then—Fairburn, ‘Gobby’ Maunsell, and all that gang!” “‘Member when ‘Gobby’ called us the Three Blind Mice, and we had to ... ...cort had abandoned the cart, and the Afridis—they’re an awfully suspicious gang—thought the retreat was a trap—sort of draw, you know—and the cart was... ...er his pipe. “Stalky? Like a serene Brahmini bull. Poor old Mac was at his Royal Engineers’ wits’ end to know what to do. You see I was putrid with dy...

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...at first believe (who could?) that Chancery is what it is. He looks to it, flushed and fitfully, to do something with his interests and bring them to ... ...early this morning and came down to confer with him.” “Yes,” said Richard, flushed, and looking triumphantly at Ada and me, “we don’t do these things ... ...l forget those two seated side by side in the lantern’s light, Richard all flush and fire and laughter, with the reins in his hand; Mr. Vholes quite s... ...ill you be so good as to put a chair for the other lady and get out of the gangway.” Mrs. Guppy, whose incessant smiling gave her quite a wag gish ap... ...,” says Mr. Bucket; “and a friend of mine that you’ll hear of one day as a Royal Acad emy sculptor would stand something handsome to make a drawing o... ...—will he, when he has a lei sure half hour, think of bestowing it on that Royal Academy sculptor, for the advantage of both parties? Bleak House – ... ...you represent yourself, I should think you might hand my mother out of the gangway instead of allowing her to re main where she ain’t wanted.” But Mr... ...re she ain’t wanted.” But Mrs. Guppy positively refused to come out of the gang way. She wouldn’t hear of it. “Why, get along with you,” said she to ...

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...hing but their little pasteboard lunch baskets painted to imitate leather; gangs of street workers, their overalls soiled with yellow clay, their pick... ...ittle false curls shaking with her agitation, the faintest suggestion of a flush coming and going in her withered cheeks. The emotion of one of these ... ...tion was most attracted. Heaps and heaps of blue-black coils and braids, a royal crown of swarthy bands, a veritable sable tiara, heavy, abundant, odo... ...gether with a little rasp- ing sound; the blood sang in his ears; his face flushed scar- let; his hands twisted themselves together like the knot- tin... ...nt. Across her forehead, her little pale forehead, under the shadow of her royal hair, he would surely see the smudge of a foul ordure, the footprint ... ...so long a speech. His arms moved in fierce, uncer- tain gestures, his face flushed, his enormous jaws shut to- gether with a sharp click at every paus... ...or was it redolent! That heavy, enervating odor of her hair—her wonderful, royal hair! The smell of that little hairbrush was talismanic. He had but t... ... pipe and take a turn upon the great avenue one block above Polk Street. A gang of laborers were digging the founda- tions for a large brownstone hous... ...ue A mile from the entrance the train reached the breast where McT eague’s gang worked. The men clambered from the cars and took up the labor where th...

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... pleasure and profit in lending himself to the capricious pleasures of his royal client. Cornelius had now lived nine years in the city of Tours. Duri... ...s premises to be guarded by a de- tachment of his own Scottish guard. Such royal solicitude made the courtiers believe that the old miser had bequeath... ...anners and habits of Maitre Cornelius. But the young man who, in the first flush of his enterprise, had feared nothing was begin- ning to perceive the... ...t warmed in your pretty boots. He is, I don’t doubt it, the leader of that gang of devils, visible and invisible, who know all my secrets, open my loc... ...ingular fancy which possessed the author of “Quentin Durward” to place the royal castle of Plessis- lez-T ours upon a height, we must content ourselve...

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...t the concession-holder should pay at once to the Gov- ernment five years’ royalties on the estimated out- put of the mine. 53 Joseph Conrad Mr. Goul... ... however short the plunder might fall of their legitimate expectations, no gang in possession of the Presidential Palace would be so incompetent as to... ...e, he reported, besides other sums extracted from him on account of future royalties, on the ground that a man with such a valuable concession 57 Jos... ...un- welcome partner, which is one or another of the high and mighty robber gangs that run the Costaguana Government. What do you think, Mr. Gould, eh?... ...ps pounding to powder the treasure rock on the plateau below. The heads of gangs, distinguished by brass medals hanging on their bare breasts, mar- 9... ...out on the cross trails between the pastures, or camped by the side of the royal road, travellers on horseback would remark to each other— “More peopl... ...plained confidentially— “Don’t you see, he’s such an idealist.” Mrs. Gould flushed pink, and her eyes grew darker at the same time. “Charley an ideali... ...s of his aching fingers through every fibre of his body, and pass off in a flush of heat. He had fought, talked, suffered mentally and physically, exe... ...ed were not in accord with his notion of his dignity. He became flustered, flushed, and helpless. It was as if the world were coming to an end. The lo...

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...es, and he never was known to take part in the sage delibera- tions of the Royal Institution or the London Institution, the Artisan’s Association, or ... ...es were regularly paid at sight from his account current, which was always flush. Was Phileas Fogg rich? Undoubtedly. But those who knew him best coul... ...ast a long article appeared, on the 7th of October, in the bulletin of the Royal Geographical Society, which treated the question from every point of ... ...anquins or unwieldly coaches; now fast steamboats ply on the Indus and the Ganges, and a great railway, with branch lines joining the main line at man... ... of Bundelcund, ascends to Allahabad, turns thence eastwardly, meeting the Ganges at Benares, then departs from the river a little, and, descending so... ...assed by the village of Kallenger, on the Cani, one of the branches of the Ganges. The guide avoided in- habited places, thinking it safer to keep the... ...an at the helm. They worked as desperately as if they were contesting in a Royal yacht regatta. By evening, the log showed that two hundred and twenty... ...every Englishman’s arm, but in vain. A big brawny fellow with a red beard, flushed face, and broad shoulders, who seemed to be the chief of the band, ...

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...by the hum blest representative of the crown, even in that polar region of royal sunshine. Such, and at no very distant period, was the respect paid t... ... the precaution to remove the whole of his effects beyond the reach of the royal forces, including the papers of his friend also. There he con- tinued... ... complexion. The air had given it, just now, a light and somewhat feverish flush, The character of his whole appearance, especially con- trasted to th... ...along shore here, as your honor does, why, d’ye see, I’ d bring him to the gangway for it, yet. There’s a very pretty post rigged alongside of the sto... ...ch is not worth so much as a damn! Mayhap you may be thinking too that the Royal Billy isn’t so good a ship as the Billy de Paris; but she would have ... ...lt vessel, with starn-post and cutwater, gar board-streak and plank-shear, gangways, and hatchways, and waterways, quarter-deck, and forecastle, ay , ... ...ways, and hatchways, and waterways, quarter-deck, and forecastle, ay , and flush-deck?—tell me that, man, if you can; where away did’ee ever fall in w... ... tender melancholy in his air, and his child reclining on a settee, with a flushed cheek, and her dark eyes seeming to float in crystals. “It was a ti... ...ad been one portion of his business to superintend the arrest of part of a gang of counterfeiters, that had, even at that early period, buried themsel...

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...ked Gudrun. ‘I think I’ve rejected several,’ said Ursula. ‘Really!’ Gudrun flushed dark—’But anything really worth while? Have you really?’ ‘A thousan... ...over the edge. They worked on in silence for some time, Gudrun’s cheek was flushed with repressed emotion. She resented its having been called into be... ...back. Ursula looked at her, and thought how amaz- ingly beautiful she was, flushed with discomfiture. But she caused a constraint over Ursula’s nature... ... all to walk with her in the park. ‘Because I don’t like trooping off in a gang,’ he said. Her voice rumbled in her throat for a moment. Then she said... ...out to one another, or crossing to meet one another, or standing in little gangs and circles, discussing, endlessly discussing. The sense of talk, buz... ...mmand. They must wait till the boat was tight on the ropes, till the small gangway was put out. Then they streamed ashore, clamouring as if they had c... ...d kissed her. This picture she entitled ‘Home.’ It would have done for the Royal Academy. ‘Come with us to tea—do,’ said Ursula, as they ran nearer to... ...he men upon them, and they lifted their heads and looked nowhere, and felt royal. The Professor announced the names of those present, sans ceremonie. ... ... toboggan, leaving Ursula and Birkin to follow. Gudrun was all scarlet and royal blue—a scarlet jersey and cap, and a royal blue skirt and stockings. ...

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...use was not large it had, like all houses on Floral Heights, an altogether royal bathroom of porce- lain and glazed tile and metal sleek as silver. Th... ...ed observed that her friends were “a scream of a bunch-stuck-up gabby four-flushers.” His friends, she indicated, were “disgusting imitation sports, a... ...d a fra- ternity pin. And none of it mattered. He was supple and swift and flushed; his eyes (which he believed to be cynical) were candidly eager. Bu... ... in its spacious lawns and landscaping, one of the notable sights crowning Royal Ridge, but merry and homelike despite its mighty stone walls and its ... ...evening. It’s not so much. I wouldn’t want to go there to dinner with that gang of, of high-binders. And I’ll bet I make a whole lot more money than s... ...h Street Traction Company owned twenty-eight per cent., and Jake Offutt (a gang-politician, a small manufacturer, a tobacco-chewing old farceur who en... ...ce Updike was making love to Lucile McKelvey in her mauve drawing- room on Royal Ridge, after their return from a lecture by an eminent English noveli... ...nely called “a bunch of gospel-pushers with dish-water instead of blood, a gang of squealers that need more dust on the knees of their pants and more ... ...tragic, or gloriously insulted, or anything save dumpy and defenseless and flushed to the red steaminess of a boiled beet. “Of course I do! I just mea...

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...he ardent genius of their disciples, it has come about that now, to many a Royal Society, the Creation of a World is little more mysterious than the c... ...r jewels, because raised in revolt which proved suc- cessful, is still the royal standard of that country;” what though John Knox’s Daughter, “who thr... ...rabiliar moods, when I read of pompous ceremonials, Frankfort Coronations, Royal Drawing-rooms, Levees, Couchees; and how the ushers and macers and pu... ...ffinities and battles and victories of Force brought about; it is a little ganglion, or nervous centre, in the great vital system of Immensity. Call i... ...ite pallid, hunger-bitten and dead-looking; while others again glow in the flush of health and vigorous self-growth, sometimes (as in my own case) not... ...wilderness, as yet unnamed, unseen: here, too, as in the Euphrates and the Ganges, is a vein or veinlet of the grand World-circulation of Waters, whic...

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...be a preliminary to immediate sailing, it was then, as they filed down our gangway, that I received the inward monition that no sailing within the mea... ...hs younger than myself, whose life, lovingly watched over as if she were a royal princess, came to an end with her fifteenth year. There were other ch... ...ut ornamentation, in barrack-hut style, with the white window-frames quite flush with the yellow face of its plain front. And yet it was a hotel; it h... ...pajamas and the thin cotton singlet, remained on board, lingering near the gangway, as though he could not make up his mind whether to go home or stay... ...f,” he burst out, hurriedly. “So long!” At the moment of stepping over the gang way he checked himself, though, to give me a mumbled invitation to din... ...over the waters about the equator. I wrapped round its unhonoured form the royal mantle of the tropics, and have essayed to put into the hollow sound ... ...e in the first person plural which makes it specially fit for critical and royal declarations. I have a small handful of these sea appreciations, sign... ...gotten; but the name of that ship seen once so many years ago in the clear flush of a cold, pale sunrise I have not forgotten. How could I—the first E...

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...o a good estate which was still in the hands of a rigorous trustee, and so royally content with himself that he took John’s devotion as a thing of cou... ...ohn through a luxurious glory. He valued himself by the possession of that royal friend, hugged himself upon the thought, and swam in warm azure; his ... ...es of the street-lamps quavering; and when at last they had mounted to the Royal Terrace, where Captain Mackenzie lived, a great salt freshness came i... ...w glanced up and caught the eye of his son, a strange commotion and a dark flush sprung into his face. ‘Father,’ said John, steadily, and even cheerfu... ... ‘Well, then,’ said the cabman, ‘if ye’ll tak’ my advice of it, we’ll just gang back. And that’s disinterested, mind ye, for my stables are in the Gle... ...ow of passion and virtue. Esther, whose eyes had come alive and her cheeks flushed during these last words, relapsed in a second into a state of petri... ...gh he meant to pull him through a threshing-mill; ‘I’ll save him from this gang; God help him with the next! He has a taste for low company, and no na...

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...te steps. Here, before his own wife has greeted him, you may greet the sea flushed ship master, just in port, with his vessel’s papers under his arm ... ...rself long and well; and she never responded to these at tacks, save by a flush of crimson that rose irrepressibly over her pale cheek, and again sub... ...larm or other sudden accident, to put his hand over his heart with first a flush and then a paleness, indica tive of pain. Such was the young clergym... ...etition of what they had beheld in proud old Lon don—we will not say at a royal coronation, but at a Lord Mayor’s show—might be traced in the customs... ...ifugal force of the repugnance which the mystic symbol inspired. The whole gang of sailors, likewise, observing the press of spectators, and learning ...

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...and in railway and mine disasters and in the minutest domesticities of the Royal Family . Most of the books at home were my father’s, and I do not thi... ...nced a search. Almost immediately I was accosted by the leader of a little gang of four or five extremely dirty and ragged boys of assorted sizes and ... ... the class- room mouthing great lines in a rich roar, and asking us with a flushed face and shining eyes if it was not “GLORIOUS.” The very sight of G... ...nd some of us even achieved an answering reverberation and a sympa- thetic flush. I at times responded freely. We all accepted from him unquestioning... ...nd street mingled with the warm glow of the declining day under the softly flushing London skies; the ever-changing placards, the shouting news-vendor... ...roops (who had seized the Navy, the Bank and other advan- tages) against a royalist army—reinforced by Germans—ad- vancing for reasons best known to t... ...dworking, hard- living, modern and scientific boys’ schools, first for the Royal Navy and then for the public service generally, and as they grew, ope...