In the Permanent Way

"One and twenty, sir--more by token I come to man's estate, as the sayin' is, at the bottom o' that there well. Lordy! I can see it now! A sort o' mist o' light from Je-rewsalem...

So, when Aggie, with a spark of unusual spirit, had refused to put on the boots which she had made the servant (for, of course, there had to be a servant in a house with a veran...

She folded up her work methodically, leaving the needle with its pennant of floss still twined deftly in and out of the threads as a mark to show where to take up the appointed...

It was a certain method of escape from the slow retribution of the old man, but as often as not she would return ere his anger had evaporated sooner than miss any one of the fou...

"Dost forget, brother, that it is the Fast?" said Raheem, as with gentle, determined hand he pushed the leaf-cup of sweets further from the board on which his tools lay. There w...

The church-gong was chiming again, and again it was _Shub'rât_. Not for the first time since Deen Mahomed had put little Rahmut's platter of sweets among the Feast of the Dead,...

Chambelé's titter rang high and shrill. "_Wâh!_ That is a tale! See you, friends; her mother hath been dead five years. Enough of this, little fool! Thou hast made thy choice al...

Perfect freedom of thought and action! Ramanund as he lay slowly recovering of his brain fever wondered if he would ever have the heart to believe in such a thing again. Wondere...

"_Mai Kâli! Mai!_ Listen! Listen!" The clear sharp voice rang passionately now, echoing through the arches. "What have I done, Mother, to be accursed? Why didst Thou take him fr...

So the matter was settled; the matter being, briefly, the appointment of a new _putwari_, in other words the official who measures the fields, and prepares the yearly harvest-ma...

Towards this thicket Saraswati, still with the same impassive face, made her way, pausing an instant before the long, low, mud manger where her favourite milch cow stood tethere...

_Amor Vincit Omnia!_ The boy's last chance fled before those words. When the ordeal was over, he turned back to his place mechanically. As he passed the master-_ji_ once more, h...

So after a time we stuck a little red flag in the ground close to the small of his back, and went on our way rejoicing until we came to our camp, a mile further on. It doesn't l...

Apparently the faith was wanting, for we did not see a fin till I commenced fishing; and even then the luck was all with me. Bannerman began to grow restive, suggesting that in...

"_My darling" said Victor, raising her sweet face to his, and pressing a kiss on those pure, pale lips, "love such as ours is eternal. Earth has no power_"--et cætera, et cætera...

The church-gong hung from the level branch of a spreading _sirus_ tree, whence the slight breeze of dawn, rustling the dry pods of a past summer and stirring the large soft puff...

John Nicholson, who had bent over his writing again, glanced up hastily. "So that is it. Here, _Moonshee_, write an order to the man at Khânpur to put this man on at once." He w...

The crowd ebbed and flowed irregularly to border the straight white roads, where at intervals the great tributary chiefs went backwards and forwards to pay their State visits, b...

Yet the very sunlessness and airlessness had its advantages. In hot weather it brought relief from the scorching glare, and in the cold, such air as there was remained warm even...

But even when there was blowing to be done, Pertâbi did not find life in the city half as amusing as life out in the village at her aunt's with cousin Nânuk as a playfellow. Nân...

It was the very last place in the world where you would have expected to hear the notes of a church harmonium; and the old man who, seated on a reed stool, was playing _God Save...

Raheem was at the station next day in plenty of time, though, rather to his surprise, he had slept later than usual that morning, and slept heavily also; perhaps because he seem...