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Indian and Home Memories

1911

Julius was quite at the top of the school and possessing great physical strength with plenty of brains and a large heart was the beau ideal of a school prefect. [...] Another delight was to go up to the racecourse in the evening and sugar the posts26 INDIAN AND HOME MEMORIES with some treacly stuff a. process which always resulted in the attraction and eventual capture in little pill-boxes of a number of moths. [...] The cure consistoi in healthy outdoor exercise ; the continual recitation in the woods or on the seashore in a loud voice of poetry of which fortunately I possessed a remarkable stock I had already learnt by heart ; the strenithening of the diaphragm and.. [...] I went up for the examination without any cramming ; the only subjects I took up were essay Eng4sh history and literature and Greek and Latin ; the general and somewhat dicursive characte;af the questions was all in my favour and I passed well. [...] Nor was the gallery of the Opera House 'altogether unpatronised and from this coign of vantage I have heard Mario and Grisi ; Giuglini the ill-fated and glorious tenor of a fleeting season ; and Titiens and Patti in their prime.
literature fiction
Pages
368
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.144972
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Frontmatter
1-12 Henry Cotton view
Chapter I On the Threshold
13-27 Henry Cotton view
Chapter II The Days of My Youth
28-38 Henry Cotton view
Chapter III Two Golden Years
39-57 Henry Cotton view
Chapter IV India at Last
58-62 Henry Cotton view
Chapter V The Influences of the Sixties
63-66 Henry Cotton view
Chapter VI My First Station
67-75 Henry Cotton view
Chapter VII A Strong Magistrate
76-87 Henry Cotton view
Chapter VIII All in the Day’s Work
88-99 Henry Cotton view
Chapter IX In Calcutta
100-113 Henry Cotton view
Chapter X On the Ladder
114-125 Henry Cotton view
Chapter XI Consule Templo
126-135 Henry Cotton view
Chapter XII Arms and the Man
136-145 Henry Cotton view
Chapter XIII On Furlough
146-154 Henry Cotton view
Chapter XIV Old Chittagong
155-165 Henry Cotton view
Chapter XV Lord Lytton
166-174 Henry Cotton view
Chapter XVI Lord Ripon
175-185 Henry Cotton view
Chapter XVII Hic Et Ubique
186-197 Henry Cotton view
Chapter XVIII Back on the Ladder
198-210 Henry Cotton view
Chapter XIX Men I have Known
211-227 Henry Cotton view
Chapter XX A Great Earthquake
228-241 Henry Cotton view
Chapter XXI Up and Down the Frontier
242-257 Henry Cotton view
Chapter XXII Incedo per Ignes
258-278 Henry Cotton view
Chapter XXIII Unmuzzled
279-292 Henry Cotton view
Chapter XXIV In the House
293-308 Henry Cotton view
Chapter XXV Nigara and after
309-329 Henry Cotton view
Chapter XXVI Conclusion
330-336 Henry Cotton view
Index
337-352 Henry Cotton view

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