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director of the day , he considered that his father ' s altered circumstances made it expedient for him to accept it at such a crisis . Mason Holwood , their shipmate , was a youth of seventeen , with rather an unprepossessing exterior , no manner , and was thought to be wanting in general ability ; the son of a Liverpool merchant , his views seemed to be confined to money-getting rather than to the " babble
reputation" of the soldier , and whatever shrewdness he displayed lay in the calculation of the number of rupees he hoped to amass while in the service . On the voyage he had shown considerable petulance of temper , and a habit of flatly contradicting a person in conversation , on which account he w as no great favourite , as may be supposed , with his brother cadets .
The trio were seated , on the evening after their arrival at Madras , in the compound of the quarters , dressed in the cool white habiliments worn by Europeans in India ; the sea-breeze had set in , and each was indulging himself at his ease in his high-backed arm-chair of canework , smoking a Trichinopoly cheeroot . In front of them was placed a teapoy or little table , on which were the refreshing liquids , cold brandy panee and sangaree . Apparently they were now wrapt in a reverie on the novelty of the scene around
them , occasionally interchanging a sentence relative to the voyage out and their fellow-passengers , when Eitzallan , gazing on the sky , exclaimed with enthusiasm to St . George , — " What a glorious sunset ! " "Indeed it is , " answered his friend ; "I wish our friends at home could see it . " LL m 5 i * . 1 "TV ill tf TTT 1 . 11 ' * _ _ J _ 1 _ JL inis is
l jLrue , rejoined jntzaiian . vvny , a spectacle wormy of Claude to depict;—and yet it is so beautiful that I am persuaded , could a painter transfer the colours we see above us to his canvas , your home-keeping critic would pronounce them a burlesque upon nature . What a variety of tints of fiery red , orange , green and brown , yet softened off around the great luminary of
day , now fast dipping to the horizon in a sheet bright as molten gold , and blended together with the delicate touch of the lovely rainbow light ! It is a sight utterly unknown to those who dw r ell for ever under the comparative gloom of an English sky ! Oh , if it could be seen by "
" One you love in old England , eh , Eitzallan ? " said St . George , interrupting him . " Nay , heed not , old fellow , I do not wish to pry into your secrets ; but I think you would scarcely be so romantic , or speak with such poetic fire , if you had not some deeper cause than mere admiration of the works of nature . But you are right ; no one would believe this without seeing it .
-Uitzallan smiled good-humourcdly at this sally of his companion , and turning to Holwood for his opinion , who was now looking dreadfully pale in the face after smoking his first Indian cheroot , elicited from that young gentleman a remark that he thought imthmg about the sunset , and cared less ; and having thus expressed umsell , Mr . Holwood said ho should go in ~ doors and lie down . von . m , r
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Pencillings Prom The Sketch-Book Oe A Ma...
director of the day , he considered that his father ' s altered circumstances made it expedient for him to accept it at such a crisis . Mason Holwood , their shipmate , was a youth of seventeen , with rather an unprepossessing exterior , no manner , and was thought to be wanting in general ability ; the son of a Liverpool merchant , his views seemed to be confined to money-getting rather than to the " babble
reputation" of the soldier , and whatever shrewdness he displayed lay in the calculation of the number of rupees he hoped to amass while in the service . On the voyage he had shown considerable petulance of temper , and a habit of flatly contradicting a person in conversation , on which account he w as no great favourite , as may be supposed , with his brother cadets .
The trio were seated , on the evening after their arrival at Madras , in the compound of the quarters , dressed in the cool white habiliments worn by Europeans in India ; the sea-breeze had set in , and each was indulging himself at his ease in his high-backed arm-chair of canework , smoking a Trichinopoly cheeroot . In front of them was placed a teapoy or little table , on which were the refreshing liquids , cold brandy panee and sangaree . Apparently they were now wrapt in a reverie on the novelty of the scene around
them , occasionally interchanging a sentence relative to the voyage out and their fellow-passengers , when Eitzallan , gazing on the sky , exclaimed with enthusiasm to St . George , — " What a glorious sunset ! " "Indeed it is , " answered his friend ; "I wish our friends at home could see it . " LL m 5 i * . 1 "TV ill tf TTT 1 . 11 ' * _ _ J _ 1 _ JL inis is
l jLrue , rejoined jntzaiian . vvny , a spectacle wormy of Claude to depict;—and yet it is so beautiful that I am persuaded , could a painter transfer the colours we see above us to his canvas , your home-keeping critic would pronounce them a burlesque upon nature . What a variety of tints of fiery red , orange , green and brown , yet softened off around the great luminary of
day , now fast dipping to the horizon in a sheet bright as molten gold , and blended together with the delicate touch of the lovely rainbow light ! It is a sight utterly unknown to those who dw r ell for ever under the comparative gloom of an English sky ! Oh , if it could be seen by "
" One you love in old England , eh , Eitzallan ? " said St . George , interrupting him . " Nay , heed not , old fellow , I do not wish to pry into your secrets ; but I think you would scarcely be so romantic , or speak with such poetic fire , if you had not some deeper cause than mere admiration of the works of nature . But you are right ; no one would believe this without seeing it .
-Uitzallan smiled good-humourcdly at this sally of his companion , and turning to Holwood for his opinion , who was now looking dreadfully pale in the face after smoking his first Indian cheroot , elicited from that young gentleman a remark that he thought imthmg about the sunset , and cared less ; and having thus expressed umsell , Mr . Holwood said ho should go in ~ doors and lie down . von . m , r