“The polo ball was worn out, scratched, peeling. It was lying on a shelf by the fireplace, among the chibouks that Imam-Din, the Khitmagar, was cleaning. “Do...

“One of the many curses of our life in India is the lack of atmosphere, in the sense in which artists understand it. There are no noticeable undertones. Peop...

“There are many reasons why I must tell this story in the first person. The person I want to hand over to human judgment is Tranter from the Bombay side. I w...

“If you go beyond the line of official receptions, official statements of production and official balls - beyond the line of everyone and everything in the c...

“If Reggie Burke were in India now, he would be angry that I am telling this story, but since he is in Hong Kong, and it will not catch his eye, I can calmly...

“It got dark; soft September rain began to fall on the heads of the hop gatherers. Mothers turned the creaking baby carriages and wheeled them out of the gar...

“The children were standing near the gate to a distant forest when they heard a cheerful voice singing a song about Rome. Without saying a word, they rushed ...

“In the days of his early youth, Dick Hat was fascinated by a certain girl. The charmer had no family, no tribe, no service, no specific occupation, in a wor...

“...The theater was located in a meadow called Long Hollow. The small river, which, after running through two or three more meadows, turned the wheels of the...

“The next day was, as the children called it, the day of “wild freedom”! Their father and mother went to visit; Miss Black went for a bike ride; Una and Den ...

“The general rule is that you should not interfere in government affairs in a country where people receive high salaries for doing them for you. This story s...

“Some natives say that it was brought from that slope of Kullu, where the eleven-inch temple of Sapphira stands. Others claim that it was made in the diaboli...