This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 Excerpt: ...and on the 3rd of July sailed from Bombay for England. To Miss Lyall sister to Sir Alfred Lyall, afterwards Mrs. Robert Webb of Milford). Knebworth, August 10, 1880. It is, indeed, like a dream to me that I should be writing to you this delicious afternoon, under an oaktree on the lawn of my grandmother's garden--the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 Excerpt: ...and on the 3rd of July sailed from Bombay for England. To Miss Lyall sister to Sir Alfred Lyall, afterwards Mrs. Robert Webb of Milford). Knebworth, August 10, 1880. It is, indeed, like a dream to me that I should be writing to you this delicious afternoon, under an oaktree on the lawn of my grandmother's garden--the bees humming, the birds hopping, and the children capering about me--the sheep-bells drowsily tinkling from the distant Park--Budget1 dozing in the mossiest of turf at my feet, and the air bathed in the manifold scents of an English August which "pour back into my empty 1 His dog. soul and frame, the times when I remember to have been joyful and free from blame"--even by the Calcutta Statesman All here is so peaceful, so enjoyable, were it not for that Black Care which rides behind the horseman, and pursues me even here, with incessant assaults, private and public, on the serenity of a soul whose devotion is claimed by the daisies. Our voyage home was really a very fair one, and but for one sad disappointment, not unpleasant. We were rather kicked about between Bombay and Aden, but afterwards both weather and water were as smooth as one could wish, and a head wind saved us from excessive heat in the Red Sea. We passed several large Russian transports crammed with troops and torpedoes, and bound for China; stayed two very hot days at Malta, where the Governor, " an old military swell," entertained us very hospitably in that magnificent old palace (do you know it?) of the Grand Masters; but on reaching Gibraltar (where I saw Lord Napier for ten minutes, and found him looking wonderfully well) we learned the first miserable news from Kandahar,2 by a telegram from Northbrook ordering our ship back to Portsmouth with all speed to...
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