Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema Exhausted Maenides after the Dance painting

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema Exhausted Maenides after the Dance paintingSir Lawrence Alma-Tadema Among the Ruins paintingSir Lawrence Alma-Tadema A Sculptors Model painting
publicly that not all Indian Muslims had supported the action of the Meerut soldiers or been in sympathy with the subsequent uprisings, no, not by any means; -- and then given him carte blanche; -- so here Peristan now stood, in the middle of near-tropical potato fields and beside the great banyan-tree, covered in bougainvillaea creeper, with snakes in the kitchens and butterfly skeletons in the cupboards. Some said its name owed more to the Englishman's than to anything more fanciful: it was a mere contraction of _Perownistan_.
After seven generations it was at last beginning to look as if it belonged in this landscape of bullock carts and palm-trees and high, clear, star--heavy skies. Even the stained--glass window looking down on the staircase of King Charles the Headless had been, in an indefinable manner, naturalized. Very few