Capitolo 75
Wrong, dark, it distorted impressions before. In front of the eyes of the
beginner, India vaporizes above in poetic fogs, deceptive, fantastic,
subjective, ideal, picturesque. The _Qui Hai_ adult reaches to write proses,
to stern and the disappointing realities; he removes the gilding from the
Empire and it penetrates to the brown ginger-bread of Rajas and Baboos.
One of the most serious duties that frequent a residence in India are the
correcting of that equivocal that Your travelling M.P.
sacrifices his/her bath to push on paper. The people of spectacled
embalmed in secretariats among Anglo-Indian alone continuous to see the
cheerful visions of griffinhood. They preserves alone the phantasmagoria of
bookland and dreamland. As for the rest of us:--
Out of the day and night
A joy has taken flight:
Baboos and Rajas and Indian the to know
You transport our weak hearts with pain, but with delight
Anybody more--oh, anymore!
It is strange that one in that his/her is modest and harmless really
country immediately has on to leave to exhibit him/it some of the worse one
characteristics of Arryism; but it seems inevitable. I have met in this
unhappy earth, farmers (who gentlemen are in England, Members of
Parliament and Deputato Lieutenants and some kind of thing) of whom
behavior and demeanour while here I cannot remember never without torn wounds and
blushes for our common humanity. My friends that testify to this emotion
he/she often supposes that I am thinking about the Committee of Famine.
[I am an Anglo-Indian that tenderly takes care of a lot of one Anglo-Indian that burns
prejudice, and I should be sorry if from what I have written here it
doesn't sufficiently couple that I tenderly take care of a prejudice that burns
against the British Tourist in India that goes out for getting up India
and to make India; not against the tourist that goes out for shooting or to
you play the fool in a way without ostentation and calm.]
As far how I can learn, it is generally an opinion receipt in house that
a man that has seen the Taj to Sour, the Qutb to Delhi and the Duke to