Our boys in India . ADVERTISING EOCKS. AMONG THE PALACES. 227 the Indian desert when he found a Httle girl only a fewhours old, and a baby boy, her brother, where their motherand father had left them to the mercy of God, while theywent on a little way to die alone ; for they were out of foodand water, and a long way from help. He took them to thecourt of the emperor Akbar, and there they grew up. The. THE TOMB or SELIM CHRISTI. little girl, some say, was the Light of the Harem, that TomMoore wrote about in his famous Lalla Rookh ; and thatthe boy married a daughter of the sheik, and their daug
Our boys in India . ADVERTISING EOCKS. AMONG THE PALACES. 227 the Indian desert when he found a Httle girl only a fewhours old, and a baby boy, her brother, where their motherand father had left them to the mercy of God, while theywent on a little way to die alone ; for they were out of foodand water, and a long way from help. He took them to thecourt of the emperor Akbar, and there they grew up. The. THE TOMB or SELIM CHRISTI. little girl, some say, was the Light of the Harem, that TomMoore wrote about in his famous Lalla Rookh ; and thatthe boy married a daughter of the sheik, and their daughterwas the sultana for whom the Shah Jehan built the Taj. Isnt that rather mixed? asked Scott. I cant seethrough it, at any rate. •Well, it only amounts to this: that the man who lies 2 28 OUR BOYS IN INDIA. here rescued from death and gave the world the heroineof Lalla Rookh, and the heroine of the Taj Mahal, — oneof the most beautiful poems, and the most beautiful mauso-leum, in the world. He got a good tomb to pay for it, said Scott; but itstrikes me that these tombs are the biggest things in I had been one of these old fellows, I would have livedin my tomb, and been buried outside. So they did live there until they died, replied Richard,laughing. These tombs they made their great reception-halls, and gave immense dinner-parties, etc., here, and triedto make their friends as h
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