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Towards the Land of the Rising Sun; Or, Four Years in Burma
Towards the Land of the Rising Sun Or Four Years in Burma Author:Katherine General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1900 Original Publisher: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge Subjects: Missions Burma History / Asia / Southeast Asia Religion / Christian Ministry / Missions Travel / Asia / Southeast Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illu... more »strations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER VI ARRACAN HOUSE Y husband is very glad to let the house to you ; we shall enjoy having you and your big family next door to us." The speaker was Mrs. Harcourt, the wife of our landlord ; they proved to be very kind, thoughtful people -- thoroughly English. Mr. Harcourt had been a rich man, and had a good deal of property in Rangoon besides several houses. But at the time we became his tenants there was some heavy financial difficulty to meet in the near future. He was much and deservedly respected, and no blame was ever attached to him for what had happened ; but the trouble was evidently shortening his life. " I think you will like Arracan House," continued Mrs. Harcourt, " it is very well built; in fact my husband spent too much money upon it; it has a framework of iron, which came out from England in the Arracan, that is the reason why the house bears that name. If you should want to know anything, just come across the compound in the evening and I will give you any information I can. Don't expect chits from me; I am not able to hold a pen, nor do any letter writing." "Oh! I am very sorry," I said with much sympathy ; " have you hurt your hand ?" " It happened some years ago," she replied with hesitation ; " I will tell you about it another time -- I do not often mention the subject to anybody." The happy days at the ' Cottage' were nearly at an end, we should like to have stayed much longer in...« less