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0025 Among the Celestials : vol.1
天の間で : vol.1
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subject, and a week or two afterwards we
again met at dinner, and again talked about
the same places. And then, after a few days,
on one Sunday afternoon, Mr. James walked
into my house and asked me if I would go a
journey with him. Nothing was said as to
where we should go; but to go a journey any-
where was enough for me, and of course I said
"Yes." I remember sitting that afternoon in
church at Simla and looking up the rows of
people, thinking how every man amongst them
would wish to be in my place, if he only knew
what I was going to do; for at that time I
thought that everybody must necessarily want
to make a journey if he could only get the
chance, and that this must be the highest
object of a man's ambition.

Mr. James, it appeared, had originally in-
tended to travel with Mr. Carey, the well-
known explorer of Tibet, who was just then
starting on his travels. But there had been
difficulty about Mr. James's leave, and so he
had had to postpone his journey till the follow-
ing spring, and, being without a companion,
had asked me to join him wherever he might
go. This act of kindness is one for which