Kenya Dawn (Classic Reprint)
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| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from Kenya Dawn In his own words John Grant married Mary Trevor - "out of hand." It is doubtful whether the Bombay Cathedral ever staged a more inconspicuous wedding. Whilst hurrying through the marriage service the chaplain, who did not want to be late for his annual luncheon party at Government House, was mentally calculating how long it would take a tikka gharry to reach the summit of Malabar Hill. The two witnesses, who had been collected at the eleventh hour, listened uninterestedly to Grant´s abrupt - "I will," echoed in a fluttering voice by Mary in her turn, and the moment the register was signed they drifted away in different directions. "So - that´s that!" was Grant´s sole comment, as they came out of the dim shadows of the gaunt interior of the Cathedral into the blazing heat of the street. This time, however, there was no echo from Mary, who was saying over and over again to herself - "Am I really married to this man, who was a stranger three weeks ago?" They had met for the first time in a dingy hotel overlooking a still dingier street. The hotel purported to be under European management, but never during all the weeks she lived there did Mary ever see any employee of unmixed white descent. The first occasion that she remembered noticing Grant was when he made way for her to pass on the not too clean matted staircase. Two fretful, sallowed-faced children whined on either side of her, and as he reached the bottom step, he heard a shrill voice exclaim impatiently from behind the half-shuttered door of a bedroom on the landing above: "Hurry up, Miss Trevor! I do wish you would be more punctual." 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.
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