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| India and Tibet : vol.1 | |
| インドとチベット : vol.1 |
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AUDIENCE OF KING EDWARD 333
had recommended me originally on account of my dis-
cretion. As long as he was in India he had given me
unfailing and ungrudging support, besides the personal
encouragement of a real friend ; and if he thought that in
the end I had failed him I should have been miserable for
the rest of my days. I had acted absolutely and entirely
on my own responsibility in what, in most difficult circum-
stances, had seemed to me the best for my country ; and I
had to take the risk of my action being approved or dis-
approved. But it would have been indeed a blow if I
found Lord Curzon thought I. had acted wrongly.
So I hastened home, and at Port Said stopped to meet
him on his way out to India again. In one moment he
set me right. I dined with him on the P. & O. steamer,
and for hours afterwards on deck we talked over all the
stirring events which had happened since we had parted
in his camp at Patiala. Of all he was warmly appreciative.
There is no man more staunch in friendship, and no
keener patriot in England, than Lord Curzon ; and what
he did for the Indian Empire, and still more what he
would have done if he had been more amply supported
from England, will perhaps some day be more fully
recognized than it is at present. If this Mission had been
a failure, on him would have fallen the blame. How
much its success was due to him no one knew better than
I did.
On my arrival in England I had the honour of an
audience of His late Majesty, and the reward I most
appreciated for my services in Tibet was this opportunity
of personally knowing my Sovereign. I saw him quite
alone. He placed me in a chair by his desk, and then in
some indefinable way made it possible for me to speak to
him as I would have to my own father. He was himself
most outspoken. He did not merely ask questions in a
perfunctory way, but took a genuinely keen interest in
our proceedings. He warmly praised the conduct of the
troops. He was well aware of the deeds, and even
character, of individual officers, and he spoke most feel-
ingly of the loss of Major Bretherton, of whose splendid
work he was fully cognizant. It appeared to me that
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