Robert Henry Elliot

Written on Their Foreheads (Volume 2) Robert Henry Elliot

Publisher Marketing: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER XXXV. How small a time had come and gone since Martin and Kambla came first together! And yet how great it seemed to Kambla. Big with events it was indeed to this simple child of solitude. And the effect produced thereby was all the greater because these incidents had crowded on her life at the tender age when the emotions are most active. But so it often is; and in the multitude of coincidences which help to shape our lives, and constitute our destiny, the exact state of our physical life in which we meet events, or events meet us, has much influence on our fate. And certainly with women's destiny this must ever be so, as with them the emotions are more tense, and there is less of power to resist their often overbearing force. But however this may be, it is certain that our hero, having met Kambla when she was just between the spring and summer of her beauty, did produce effects that might not have arisen some seasons further on. But we must not longer dally on the way, nor anticipate the action of our story. Though the Ubeemonay was now temporarily inhabited by a most unlooked-for guest, his presence made little difference in the daily life; and so soon is the mind insensibly habituated to what is new, that to Kistna Rao, at least, it seemed, in the course of a single day and night, as if Martin had been quite assimilated, as it were, with the daily life. So on the second morning after the day of the tiger adventure, the Brahmin went about his plantation work as if our hero never had existed. As for anything that might occur during his absence from the house, he, good man, thought not of the matter; and if he had thought of it for one moment, it would only have been to dismiss it the next; for was not Martin Kerr completely shut off in his matted chamber; and as fo...