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The Path to Honour By: Sydney C. Grier (1868-1933) |
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Transcriber's note: The name "Lena" appears several times in this book.
In the original book, the "e" in "Lena" was e macron. THE PATH TO HONOUR by SYDNEY C. GRIER Author of
'The Power of the Keys,' 'A Young Man Married,'
Etc., Etc. William Blackwood and Sons
Edinburgh and London
1909
NOVELS by SYDNEY C. GRIER
Modern East Series. The Advanced Guard
His Excellency's English Governess
Peace with Honour
The Warden of the Marches
Balkan Series. An Uncrowned King
A Crowned Queen
The Kings of the East
The Prince of Captivity
Indian Historical Series. In Furthest Ind
Like Another Helen
The Great Proconsul
Balkan Series. II. The Heir
The Heritage
The Power of the Keys
A Young Man Married Edited by Sydney C. Grier The Letters of Warren Hastings to his Wife. CONTENTS.
CHAP. I. "IF IT BE A SIN TO COVET HONOUR "
II. HER SIDE OF THE CASE
III. THE OLD ORDER AND THE NEW
IV. "A HUNTING WE WILL GO"
V. GERRARD FINDS FAVOUR
VI. THE CROWNING PROOF
VII. ON GUARD
VIII. THE SUPERFLUOUS CHARTERIS
IX. IN SLIPPERY PLACES
X. THE DOOR IS SHUT
XI. MURDER MOST FOUL
XII. THE ONE WHO WAS TAKEN
XIII. THE ONE WHO WAS LEFT
XIV. THE IDEAL AND THE REAL
XV. MUTTERINGS OF THE STORM
XVI. THE MILD CONCERNS OF ORDINARY LIFE
XVII. THE ISSUES OF AN AWFUL MOMENT
XVIII. THE CAMPAIGN OF VENGEANCE
XIX. AS OTHERS SEE US
XX. A DAY OF VICTORY
XXI. FAINT HEART AND FAIR LADY
XXII. THE TRIUMPH OF THE DEAD
XXIII. RUN TO EARTH
XXIV. HONOUR AND HONOURS
THE PATH TO HONOUR.
CHAPTER I. "IF IT BE A SIN TO COVET HONOUR " The time was towards the close of the 'forties of the nineteenth
century, and the place the city of Ranjitgarh, capital of the great
native state of Granthistan, which was not yet a British possession,
but well on the way to becoming one. This ultimate destiny was
entirely undesired by the powers that were, who had just appointed
Colonel Edmund Antony a fanatical upholder of native rights, according
to his enemies as British Resident and protector of the infant prince
occupying the uneasy throne. The task of regenerating Granthi society
from the top, much against its will, and welding its discordant
elements into a peaceful, prosperous, and contented buffer state (the
thing was known, though not as yet the name) against encroaching
Ethiopia on the north, promised to be no easy one, but Colonel Antony
was undertaking it confidently, with the support of two or three of his
brothers and a picked band of assistants drawn from the army and Civil
Service. That moral suasion might be duly backed up by physical force,
ten thousand British and Indian troops, under the command of a
Peninsular veteran, General Sir Arthur Cinnamond, were garrisoning the
citadel of Ranjitgarh and holding the lines of Tej Singh in the
suburbs. The city thus overawed Colonel Antony was wont to call the
wickedest place in Asia, in blissful ignorance of the sins not only of
distant Gamara, but of towns much nearer home. Its streets were filled
with a swaggering disbanded soldiery that had faced the might of
England and the Company in four pitched battles during the last decade,
shameless women peered from its every lattice, and its defence of
religion took the form of frequent bloodthirsty "cow rows," but he saw
in its wickedness no insuperable bar to the success of his policy. In
twelve years or so the British would retire, leaving a reformed nation
to govern itself. Meanwhile, in order to emphasise the transient
nature of the occupation, a Mohammedan tomb served as the English
church, and a single house of moderate size was made to accommodate the
Resident and all his assistants, becoming the scene of as much hard
work and high endeavour as might have sufficed to redeem an empire. On an inner courtyard of the Residency there looked out a number of
small rooms, each of which was shared by two young men, who had much
ado to bestow themselves and their possessions in the limited space and
the section of verandah that appertained to it... Continue reading book >>
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