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Harold's Bride: A Tale
The story revolves around the young missionary Harold Hartley and his bride, Alicia, as they navigate life and challenges in a missionary station in India.
"Harold's Bride: A Tale" by A. L. O. E. is a work of fiction. The story revolves around the young missionary Harold Hartley and his bride, Alicia, as they navigate life and challenges in a missionary station in India.
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“What’s this?—not a coolie at work; the place a litter of bricks and dust; the pillars of the veranda not a foot high! Instead of growing upwards, they seem to grow downwards, like lighted candles. The bricks also are good for nothing—chipped, broken, katcha [only sun-dried], when I gave strict orders for pakka [baked]. Cannot a fellow be absent for a week without finding everything neglected, everything at a standstill?—Nabi Bakhsh! Nabi Bakhsh!”
The call was rather angrily given, and was obeyed by a dusky, bearded man in a large dirty turban, who made an obsequious salám to Robin Hartley, after emerging from some corner where this overseer of the building works had been placidly smoking his hookah.
“What has become of the coolies? have they all gone to sleep?” cried young Hartley, in Urdu more fluent than correct. “The work seems at a deadlock, and you promised that I should find the veranda finished by my return. Do you think that we are to pay you for merely looking at rubbish like this?” Robin struck one of the bricks with his heel, and broke it to pieces.
The excuses of Nabi Bakhsh need not be detailed,—how there had been a religious feast, and of course the men could not work; then the grandmother of Karim had died, and of course every one had gone to the funeral.
Contents
- 01Chapter I House-Building.
- 02Chapter II an Exotic.
- 03Chapter III Happy Days.
- 04Chapter IV Indian Travelling.
- 05Chapter V First Impressions.
- 06Chapter VI Little Foes.
- 07Chapter VII Digging Deep.
- 08Chapter VIII First Visit to a Zenana.
- 09Chapter IX Try Again.
- 10Chapter X Marriage and Widowhood.
- 11Chapter XI What a Song Did.
- 12Chapter XII a Startling Suspicion.
- 13Chapter XIII Out in Camp.
- 14Chapter XIV the Black Charm.
- 15Chapter XV a Struggle.
- 16Chapter XVI Water! Water!
- 17Chapter XVII the Commissioner.
- 18Chapter XVIII Waiting Time.
- 19Chapter XIX the White Brother.
- 20Chapter XX the Welcome Rain.
- 21Chapter XXI a Letter for Home.
- 22Chapter XXII Yoked Twain and Twain.
About this edition
- Author
- A. L. O. E.
- Language
- English
- Era
- Modern (c. 1800–1945)
- Reading level
- Intermediate: some philosophy helps
- Formats
- EPUB, PDF
- Length
- 157 pages
- This edition
- Modern Philosophers
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