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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 33 CHAPTER III. LOLAPUR. An ordinary Indian station enough, and yet what a pretty one ! This was the unuttered exclamation that sprang to the lips of young Duckworth, the Assistant-Superintendent of Police, as riding to the mouth, of the khind on the Dholpur road, he came suddenly on the little place lying stretched at his feet. There are not many pretty stations in India, and when a man does come across one, he appreciates it. Duckworth had not been long at Lolapur; in fact, he had but recently arrived in the country, and so he had never seen the little beauty before with her best morning frock on, all smiling and dimpling as she lay bathed in the glory of the rising sun, which was driving away the mist from the hilltops in rolling clouds and hastening to greet Lolapur once more. It was one of the cool, bright mornings towards the end of September. They occasionally come to brace a man up for the muggy month of October which is coming, and to give him a foretaste of the cold weather for which we shall all be panting long before our time of trial shall have passed away. And what did Duckworth see? Lolapur was at his feet, the nearest house was not much more than a hundred yards away from where he sat on his horse, spellbound as it were. Lolapur is situated in a kind of amphitheatre of hills of a moderate height which encloses the place on the east, south, and west, while to the north there is a large cultivated plain bounded on the extreme horizon by a lofty chain of hills. The station lies in the south-west corner of this amphitheatre, and gradually slopes upwards from the plain till it almost reaches as high as the khind, or saddle, where Duckworth had pulled up. Full in front of him, towering over the less pretentious dwellings which lie about it, was th...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217609326
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 74
  • Spine Width: 4 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217609325
  • Publisher Date: 17 May 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 150 gr


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