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Excerpt from Cities Seen in East and West
From an ex-resident's wife came a kindly farewell. Till lately she dispensed royal hospitality in Kashmir. Her barge upon the Jhelum rivalled Cleopatra's. Its crew in vermilion cloth paddled swiftly up and down the river. In rest it lay moored among groves of purple iris. Now she shivers in chilly English country-houses and yawns among beefy relatives, while her lord, lately the guardian angel of a state larger than Holland, kicks up his heels and wonders what on earth to do. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
