Excerpt from Rulers of India<br><br>Will have been to him a subject, first of discreet inquiry, and later of pious reprobation. He pre ferred, we may be sure, as became a sober Scotch body, the joys of his home in Hastings Street to the masquerades at Mr. Creighton's Harmonic House. In the South Park Street Cemetery, under hideous pyramids and beneath the débris Of fast crumbling tombs, is gathered in its last reunion much Of the vexed society which surrounded him. There is Hyde, Sir Elijah Impey's colleague; 'an honest man,' Sir Elijah thinks, 'but a great coxcomb.' There is choleric Clavering, Member Of Council and' Com mander-in-chief, but not the less prepared to call Out his colleague, 'curricle' Barwell, who later begged the honour of his daughter's hand 1. There is his fellow Councillor, Colonel Monson; whose wife, Lady Anne Monson, 'a very superior whist-player,' rests with him.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.