Our journey around the world; an illustrated record of a year's travel of forty thousand . 352 MAKING THE BEST OF IT. him of his fortune, he remarked that he was glad to knowof the matter without any unnecessary delay, since healready had another damsel in mind for the position, towhom he hoped the missionary would make his next applica-tion. No doubt final success smiled upon this persistentthough somewhat nonchalant lover. These matchmakers marriages do not always turn out asunhappily as might be supposed, by any means. The youngcouple, thus brought together, make the best of their c
Our journey around the world; an illustrated record of a year's travel of forty thousand . 352 MAKING THE BEST OF IT. him of his fortune, he remarked that he was glad to knowof the matter without any unnecessary delay, since healready had another damsel in mind for the position, towhom he hoped the missionary would make his next applica-tion. No doubt final success smiled upon this persistentthough somewhat nonchalant lover. These matchmakers marriages do not always turn out asunhappily as might be supposed, by any means. The youngcouple, thus brought together, make the best of their circum-stances and of each other. The husband is usually affection-ate, and the wife, from the very force of circumstances, faith-ful. If loves passionate young dream is not experienced,neither is the frequent disillusionment and reaction of mar-ried life in more northern climes, and it is pleasant to believeas we leave this subject that behind the walls of many of thepoor mud huts of India, as everywhere else in this old world,is much conjugal felicity, parental affection, and CHAPTEK XIX. IN THE COUNTRY OF THE GREAT MUTINY. Across Northern India by Rail — In an Indian Sleeping Car — Scenes fromour Car Window — Storks and Penguins, Monkeys and Jackals— Itis a Beautiful Morning ; Come, Let Us Kill Something — Defiling aPeddlers Sweetmeats — A Work of Patience and Diplomacy — AnEvery Day Conversation in India — The Mecca of the Brahmins — TheMonkey Temple — Cawnpore of Bloody Memory — An Awful Page ofHistory — The Angel of Remembrance — Memories of Lucknow —The Gallant Lawrence — Havelocks Troops to the Rescue — TheHeros Grave — The Cannon Ball that Robbed the Mother of Her Babe— The City of the Taj Mahal — The Moguls Promise and How HeKept It—In Memory of an Immortal Love — The Hand of theVandal—Jane Higginbottom in the Taj—How the Old KingPlayed Parchesi.
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