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0127 Among the Celestials : vol.1
天の間で : vol.1
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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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