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Excerpt from Glimpses of Hidden India
"It must be sad to visit a country where the English are so much disliked."
So said a Russian officer, who had been through the siege of Port Arthur. I looked at him with astonishment; but said nothing, for I had always heard that the Russians desire to replace the English in India, and I thought that the sad-eyed officer, who wore deep mourning, was prejudiced by national aspirations and jealousies.
We were returning from Kandy, having visited there the Temple of the Sacred Tooth; and we carried on a desultory conversation in the train.
"Where are you going to?" he asked.
"India," I replied.
And then he said, in French, the words with which I open this book - words so true, so sad, and, at the present time, so full of significance.
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