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Excerpt from Up the Country, Vol. 1 of 2: Letters Written to Her Sister From the Upper Provinces of India
When we came down for some coffee, the great hall was full of gentlemen who had come to accompany his lordship to the ghaut-even, Mr. Macaulay had turned out for it. F. And I, with Captain P. Soon took ourselves off, and drove down to the landing-place There were two lines of troops from the door of Government House to the river, and the band was playing that march in the Puritani' which, when we were at the Admiralty, used to be played every morning by the Guards' band, and which, con sequently, always carries me back to the horrid time of our preparations for leaving England, so I can always cry it all over again to that tune. The road was covered with carriages and riders; and, at the ghaut, a large set of our particular.
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