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Among the Celestials : vol.1 |
CHAP. V.]
HEAVY ANXIETIES. 99
true difficulty in the matter. Had but one
traveller gone through before me ; had I even
now with me a companion upon whom I could
rely, or one good servant whom I could trust.
to stand by me, the task would have seemed
easy in comparison. But all was utterly dark
before me, and the journey was to be made
alone with a Chinese servant whom I had
found in Peking.
That last night in safety and civilisation
all these difficulties and uncertainties weighed
heavily upon me. But with the morning they
were forgotten, and they never troubled me
again.. The start was to be made, and the
real excitement begun, and if the difficulties.
and uncertainties were great, the greater would
be the satisfaction in overcoming them. An
unalterable conviction came over me that.
somehow or other I should find myself in
India in a few months' . time.
Sir John and Lady Walsham and all the
members of the Legation collected at the gate-
way to bid me good-bye, and, as they did so,
I tried to thank them for all the many kind-
nesses they had shown me, and for the good-
will and interest they had taken in my plans.
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