Our boys in India . THE BALCONY. back again. I should like to show you the gates ; but everyone who sees them must have a special permit, and thatpermit is only to be obtained by making personal applicationsupon a man who, I believe, is never at home. Taking the carriage again at the door, they drove for two 220 OUR BOYS IN INDIA. miles down the strand road, to the Taj Mahal of which had spoken. The gateway was so beautiful in itselfthat Scott thought it impossible for the Taj within it to bemore so. He stopped for a moment on the marble platform,looking up at the great red-sandsto
Our boys in India . THE BALCONY. back again. I should like to show you the gates ; but everyone who sees them must have a special permit, and thatpermit is only to be obtained by making personal applicationsupon a man who, I believe, is never at home. Taking the carriage again at the door, they drove for two 220 OUR BOYS IN INDIA. miles down the strand road, to the Taj Mahal of which had spoken. The gateway was so beautiful in itselfthat Scott thought it impossible for the Taj within it to bemore so. He stopped for a moment on the marble platform,looking up at the great red-sandstone tower decorated with. THE BEAUTIFUL GATE. white marble: then he followed Mr. Cliffton and Mr. Ray-mond under the arch. Moonlight -is the time to see the outside of the Taj,said Royal Cliffton ; but then one has to sacrifice the inside,which is yet more beautiful. Well come again, and see itby moonlight. Within the gate there was a tropical garden extendingaway over broad acres in every direction, and one massof luxuriant vegetation, — tall palms and twining vines, AMONG THE PALACES. 221 flowering shrubs in tropical confusion, with long avenuesleading through it in various directions, bordered with foun-tains. There are eleven hundred of those fountains in thisgarden, said Mr. Cliffton. From the gate they walked down a long avenue of
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