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Page 37
... Peshawar - the Key of India , and a city of Romance , which stands at every corner , and cries aloud in the market - place . But there was society here , and I was swept into it - there was chatter , and it galled me . I was beginning ...
... Peshawar - the Key of India , and a city of Romance , which stands at every corner , and cries aloud in the market - place . But there was society here , and I was swept into it - there was chatter , and it galled me . I was beginning ...
Page 38
... Peshawar long before I came here . Knew it walked here , lived . Before there were English in In- dia at all . ' She broke off . ' You won't understand . ' ' Oh , I have had that feeling , too , ' I said patronizingly . ' If one has ...
... Peshawar long before I came here . Knew it walked here , lived . Before there were English in In- dia at all . ' She broke off . ' You won't understand . ' ' Oh , I have had that feeling , too , ' I said patronizingly . ' If one has ...
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... Peshawar . ' Her voice was like a song . She had utterly forgotten my existence . I did not dislike it at the moment , for I want- ed to hear more , and the impersonal is the rarest gift a woman can give a man . ' Did you buy anything ...
... Peshawar . ' Her voice was like a song . She had utterly forgotten my existence . I did not dislike it at the moment , for I want- ed to hear more , and the impersonal is the rarest gift a woman can give a man . ' Did you buy anything ...
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... Peshawar at six for fear of raiding natives . ' ' I know ; they hauled me up in the dusk the other day , and told me I should be swept off to the hills if I fooled about after dusk . But I say is it safe for you to go ? You ought to ...
... Peshawar at six for fear of raiding natives . ' ' I know ; they hauled me up in the dusk the other day , and told me I should be swept off to the hills if I fooled about after dusk . But I say is it safe for you to go ? You ought to ...
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... Peshawar to Nowshera , the gold - bright sun dazzling in its white- ness — a strange drive through the flat , burned country , with the ominous Kabul River flowing through it . Mili- tary preparations everywhere , and the hills looking ...
... Peshawar to Nowshera , the gold - bright sun dazzling in its white- ness — a strange drive through the flat , burned country , with the ominous Kabul River flowing through it . Mili- tary preparations everywhere , and the hills looking ...
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