Category: Novels
We are all backwoodsmen and barbarians together--we others dwelling beyond the Ditch, in the outer darkness of the Mofussil. There are no such things as commissioners and heads of departments in the world, and there is only one city in India. Bombay is too green, too pretty, a...
“And since they cannot spend or use aright The little time here given them in trust, But lavish it in weary undelight Of foolish toil, and trouble, strife and lust-- They natura...
3. CHAPTER III.He set up conclusions to the number of nine thousand seven hundred and sixty-four ... he went afterwards to the Sorbonne, where he maintained argument against the theologians fo...
4. CHAPTER IV.The clocks of the city have struck two. Where can a man get food? Calcutta is not rich in respect of dainty accommodation. You can stay your stomach at Peliti’s or Bonsard’s, bu...
8. CHAPTER VIII.Time must be filled in somehow till five this afternoon, when Superintendent Lamb will reveal more horrors. Why not, the trams aiding, go to the Old Park Street Cemetery? It is...
2. CHAPTER II.Morning brings counsel. _Does_ Calcutta smell so pestiferously after all? Heavy rain has fallen in the night. She is newly-washed, and the clear sunlight shows her at her best....
7. CHAPTER VII.“And where next? I don’t like Colootollah.” The Police and their charge are standing in the interminable waste of houses under the starlight. “To the lowest sink of all,” say th...
5. CHAPTER V.In the beginning, the Police were responsible. They said in a patronizing way that, merely as a matter of convenience, they would prefer to take a wanderer round the great city...
1. CHAPTER I.We are all backwoodsmen and barbarians together--we others dwelling beyond the Ditch, in the outer darkness of the Mofussil. There are no such things as commissioners and heads...