Olivia in India

OLIVIA IN INDIA O. DOUGLAS When one discovers a hapfy look it is ones ditty to tell ones friends about it. JAMES DOUGLAS in The Star. OLIVIA IN INDIA. By O. DOUGLAS Happy books are not very plentiful, and when one discovers a happy book it is ones duty to tell ones friends about it, so that it makes them happy too. My happy book is called Olivia. It is by a certain young woman who calls herself O. Douglas, though I suspect that its a pen-name. . . . Olivia can write the most fascinating letters you ever read. JAMES DOUGLAS in the Star. fl Extremely interesting. To have read this book is to have met an extremely likeable personality in the author. Glasgow Herald. PENNY PLAIN. By O, DOUGLAS Penny Plain is a story of life in a little town on the banks of the Tweed. Jean Jardine, the heroine who looks, after her brothers in their queer old house, The Rigs, and is in turn looked after by the old servant, Mrs. McCosh from Glasgow, and Peter, the fox-terrierdescribes herself and her life as penny plain, but with the coming of Pamela Res ton and her brother who was what Mrs. McCosh called a Lord no less, everything is changed. There is love in the book and laughter. A very able and delightful book. The Times. st A delicious novel ... a triumphant success. A MAN OF KENT in the British Weekly. THE SETONS. By O. DOUGLAS Portrayed with the humour and insight of a deep affection. The Times. Elizabeth is a delightful creature who radiates the pages. Glasgow Herald. To the reading public at large it will prove a sheer delight. Glasgow Times. Full of charm. Spectator. A delightful romance. A berdeen Journal. HODDER AND STOUGHTON LTD. WARWICK SQUARE LONDON, E. G. 4 OLIVIA IN INDIA BY O. DOUGLAS AUTHOROF THE SETONS PENNY PLAIN This boo is donated by Smt, P. R ynm -. in rn-mory of her hi, 5, i . 0 s, I B -- L Nar nV, . kao. Ul-C.-A Sf 8, Wh r. p, -J OHI 182- 30 HODDER AND STOUGHTON LIMITED LONDON Pint Edition printed Novemkr Second Edition, April Third Edition ., April igi Fourth Edition, January iqn v and this the Fifth Edition, Marcl 1922 PRINTED IN ORKAI BRITAIN BV MOKRISON AND GlBB LTD, EDINBURGH CONTENTS PART I PAGE THROUGH THE GATES OF THE EAST, i PART II FLESHPOTS OF CALCUTTA . 45 PART III THE SUNBURNED EARTH ., .125 PART IV THE LAND OF REGRETS . . .213 THROUGH THE GATES OF THE EAST S, S. Scotia, Oct. 19, 19. ., . THIS is a line to send off with the pilot, There is nothing to say except Good-bye again. We have had luncheon, and I have been poking things out of my cabin trunk, and furtively survey ing one there are two, but the other seems to be lost at present of my cabin companions, She has fair hair and a blue motor-veil, and looks quiet and subdued, but then, I dare say, so do I. I hope you are thinking of your friend going down to the sea in a ship. I feel, somehow, very small and lonely. OLIVIA. 5. S. Scotia, Oct. 21. In pencil . . . WHATEVER you do, whatever folly you commit, never, never be tempted to take a sea voyage. It is quite the nastiest thing you can take I have had three days of it now, so I know. 4 OLIVIA When I wrote to you on Saturday I had an uneasy feeling that in the near future all would not be well with me, but I went in to dinner and afterwards walked up and down the deck trying to feel brave. Sunday morning dawned rain-washed and tempestuous, and the way the ship heaved was not encouraging, but I rose, or rather I descended from my perch did Itell you I had an upper berth r and walked with an undulating motion towards my bath. Some people would have re mained in bed, or at least gone unbathed, but, as I say, I rose mark, please, the rugged grandeur of the Scots character and such is the force of example the fair-haired girl rose also. Before I go any further I must tell you about this girl Her name is Hilton, Geraldine Hilton, but as that is too long a name and already we are great friends, I call her G. She is...