Jump to navigationLog inSign upNewsletter简体中文繁l中文English ???????РусскийFran?aisPortuguês (Br)Espa?ol???????日本Y?LearnEnglish TeensTeachingEnglishLearnEnglishSearch formSearchHomeListen and watchSongsShort storiesPoemsVideo zoneRead and writeYour turnReading practiceWriting practiceSpeak and spellSoundsSpeakSpellTricky wordsGrammar and vocabularyGrammar practiceGrammar videosGrammar chantsWord gamesWord of the weekFun and gamesGamesJokesTongue twistersPrint and makeFlashcardsCraftsWorksheetsColouringParentsHelping your childVideo tipsTop tipsResourcesCoursesAppsSection menuHomeListen and watchSongsShort storiesPoemsVideo zoneRead and writeYour turnReading practiceWriting practiceSpeak and spellSoundsSpeakSpellTricky wordsGrammar and vocabularyGrammar practiceGrammar videosGrammar chantsWord gamesWord of the weekFun and gamesGamesJokesTongue twistersPrint and makeFlashcardsCraftsWorksheetsColouringParentsHelping your childVideo tipsTop tipsResourcesCoursesAppsLearnEnglish TeensTeachingEnglishLearnEnglishThe Maharajah was out, at his devotions; I could see everything. Up a staircase with a gilt paper and gilt banisters, leading to rooms where crystal lustres hang like tears above Oxford Street furniture, and lovely chromo-lithographs in massive and glittering frames.Short stories"Then twenty-eight?"SongsIn the middle of a large garden outside the town was the visitors' bungalow, the divan, where the prince's prime minister received us, and made us welcome on behalf of his master. Hardly were we seated when in came the Rajah, driving two wonderful horses drawing a phaeton. Dressed in a long black coat over very narrow trousers of white muslin, Gohel Sheri Man Sinjhi wore a turban, slightly tilted from the left side, and made of hundreds of fine pale green cords rolled round[Pg 65] and round. The Prince of Morvi, and another of the Rajah's cousins, followed in perfectly appointed carriages, drawn by thoroughbreds. Last of all, carried by an attendant from her landau to the large reception-room where we sat gravely in a circle, came a little princess of seven years old, the Rajah's daughter. Enormous black eyes with dark blue lights, her tawny skin a foil to her jewels, and the gold and silver embroidery of a little violet velvet coat open over a long tunic of green silk, trousers of pink satin, and yellow leather slippers. A plum-coloured cap, worked with gold trefoils, was set very straight on her black hair; she wore, in her ears, slender rings of gold filigree, and had a nose-stud of a fine pearl set in gold. She stood between her father's knees, squeezing close up to him with downcast eyes, never daring to stir but when we seemed to be paying no heed to her.Word gamesIn the evening, as I again went past the Towers of Silence, the palm trees were once more crowded with sleeping birds gorged with all the food sent them by the plague. On the other side of Back Bay, above the Field of Burning, a thick column of smoke rose up, red in the last beams of