A Romance of Present-Day India (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from A Romance of Present-Day India Turquoise paroquets and emerald parrots flew about and chattered in the branches of palms and tufted banana trees. Dominating the symphony of shrill cries was the grave and monotonous cawing of crows. Gilbert stretched himself on his couch, looked at the time, and with one bound stood on the leopard skin that lay on the floor. "Zahourl Zahourl" he cried, with the impatience characteristic of the Frenchman. "Ah! the brute, the animal!" A bronzed "boy, " with a short black beard and features typical of a despot, appeared, his head adorned with a pale rose turban wound in the Mohammedan fashion. "The master called me?" he asked in irreproachable English, for he boasted of having accompanied a major of the Fifty-seventh Wilde's Rifles for a year's sick-leave to Liverpool. "Did n't I tell you last evening to waken me before seven o'clock? Here it is after eight!" "Quite true, Sahib. But last night the master was late going to sleep. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.