Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER II. OXFORD AND INDIA. Return to England--The brothers separated--Oxford--Effects of a foreign education -- Boyish pranks -- Fencing -- College life and amusements--Newman and Pusey--Arabic--London again--Oxford companions--Study--A family meeting--The Continent once more --The Rhine--Wiesbaden--Students' duels--Back in Oxford--An escapade--Richard is sent down--Obtains a commission in the H.E.I.C.'s service--Sails for India--Life on board the John Knox --Bombay life--The Services--A Military day--Baroda--Sport-- Joining the regiment -- Sepoys -- Indian politics -- Passing in Hindustani--The voyage down--Gujerati--Transferred to Sind-- Karachi--Napier and Outram--Freemasonry--Joins Captain Walter Scott--Goa--Return to Sind--New studies--Weakened sight-- Passed over for Promotion--Natural disgust--Return to England by long sea route--Studying fencing--Awarded the Brevet de Pointe-- Publishes system of bayonet exercise--Official wrath--A grateful country--How to accept a slight--Sir John Holker's sixpenceNegotiations with the Royal Geographical Society. WHEN the six weeks' cure was over, Richard was hurried by his guardian across France and Southern England to the rendezvous. The grandmother and the two aunts finding Great Cumberland Street too hot, had taken country quarters at Hampstead. Grandmamma Baker received the lads with something like disappointment. She would have been better contented had they been six feet high, bony as Highland cattle, with freckled faces and cheek-bones like horns. Miss Georgina Baker embraced and kissed her nephews with effusion: she had not been long parted from them. Mrs. Burton, the other aunt, had never seen them for ten years and of course could not recognise them. They found two very nice little...
