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Ch 21 - A Passage to India · A Passage to India

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  Chapter twenty one. Dismissing his regrets as inappropriate to the matter in hand,
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  he accomplished the last section of the day by riding off to his new allies.
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  He was glad that he had broken with the club, for he would
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  have picked up scraps of gossip there and reported them down in the city,
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  and he was glad to be denied this opportunity. He would miss his billiards
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  and occasional tennis and cracks with mac bride, but really that was all so
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  light did he travel. At the entrance of the bazaars, a tiger made
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  his horse shy. A youth dressed up as a tiger, the body striped
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  brown and yellow, a mask over the face. Mohoram was working up the
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  city beat a good many drums, but seemed good tempered. He was invited
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  to inspect a small tazia, a flimsy and frivolous erection, more like Akrideline
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  than the tomb of the grandson of the prophet done to death at Kervella.
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  Excited children were pasting colored paper over its ribs. The rest of the evening
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  he spent with the Nawab Bahadur Hamidullah Mahmoud Ali and others of the Confederacy.
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  The campaign was also working up. A telegram had been sent to the famous
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  Amritrao, and his acceptance received. Application for bail was to be renewed.
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  It could not well be withheld now that misquestion was out of danger. The
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  conference was serious and sensible, but marred by a group of itinerant musicians who
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  were allowed to play in the compound. Each held a large earthenware jar containing
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  pebbles and jerked it up and down in time to a doleful chant. Distracted
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  by the noise, he suggested their dismissal, but the Nawab badur vetoed it.
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  He said that musicians who had walked many miles might bring good luck.
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  Late at night, he had an inclination to tell Professor Goodwilly of the tactical
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  and moral error he had made in being rude to he slipped, and to
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  hear what he would say. But the old fellow had gone to bed and
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  slipped off, unmolested, to his new job in a day or two.
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  He always did possess the knack of slipping off. End of Chapter twenty one