The Far Pavilions by M.M. Kaye EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
- Author Name: M.M. Kaye
- Book Genre: Classics, Cultural, Fiction, Historical, Historical Fiction, India, Romance
- ISBN # 9780312151256
- Edition Language: English
- Date of Publication: 1978-8-1
- PDF File Size: 4.6 MB
- EPUB File Size: 2.8 MB
The Twig is Bent
A glossary of Indian words appears on page 959
Ashton Hilary Akbar Pelham-Martyn was born in a camp near the
crest of a pass in the Himalayas, and subsequently christened in a
patent canvas bucket.
His rst cry competed manfully with the snarling call of a leopard
on the hillside below, and his rst breath had been a lungful of the
cold air that blew down from the far rampart of the mountains,
bringing with it a clean scent of snow and pine-needles to thin the
reek of hot lamp-oil, the smell of blood and sweat, and the pungent
odour of pack-ponies.
Isobel had shivered as the icy draught lifted the tent-ap and
swayed the ame in the smoke-grimed hurricane lamp, and listening
to her son’s lusty cries had said weakly: ‘He doesn’t sound like a
premature baby, does he? I suppose I – I must have –
miscalculated…’
She had: and it was a miscalculation that was to cost her dear.
There are few of us, after all, who are called upon to pay for such
errors with our lives.
By the standards of the day, which were those of Victoria and her
Albert, Isobel Ashton was held to be a shockingly unconventional
young woman, and there had been a number of raised eyebrows and
censorious comments when she had arrived in the cantonment of
Peshawar,
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