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I came to a valley of stones, and finally reached the ruins of an
ancient castle, built, they say, in the tenth century by a Saracen
chief, a good man, who was baptized a Christian through love
for a young girl. Everywhere around me were mountains, and
before me the sea, the sea with an almost imperceptible patch
on it: Corsica, or, rather, the shadow of Corsica. But on the
mountain summits, blood-red in the glow of the sunset, in the
boundless sky and on the sea, in all this superb landscape that I
had come here to admire I saw only two poor children, one
lying prone on the edge of a hole filled with black water, the
other submerged to his neck, their hands intertwined, weeping
opposite each other, in despair. And it seemed as though I continually
heard a weak, exhausted voice saying: “Good-by, little
brother, I am going to give you my watch.”
This letter may seem rather melancholy, dear friend. I will
try to be more cheerful some other day.
Guy de Maupassant
469
A A CREMA CREMA CREMATION
CREMA CREMA TION
Last Monday an Indian prince died at Etretat, Bapu Sahib
Khanderao Ghatay, a relation of His Highness, the Maharajah
Gaikwar, prince of Baroda, in the province of Guzerat, Presidency
of Bombay.
For about three weeks there had been seen walking in the
streets about ten young East Indians, small, lithe, with dark
skins, dressed all in gray and wearing on their heads caps such
as English grooms wear. They were men of high rank who had
come to Europe to study the military institutions of the principal
Western nations. The little band consisted of three princes,
a nobleman, an interpreter and three servants.
The head of the commission had just died, an old man of
forty-two and father-in-law of Sampatro Kashivao Gaikwar,
brother of His Highness, the Gaikwar of Baroda.
The son-in-law accompanied his father-in-law.
The other East Indians were called Ganpatrao Shravanrao
Gaikwar, cousin of His Highness Khasherao Gadhav; Vasudev
Madhav Samarth, interpreter and secretary; the slaves: Ramchandra
Bajaji, Ganu bin Pukiram Kokate, Rhambhaji bin Fabji.