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A marigold lay in the path, an orange-coloured scrap with a broken
stem, dropped from some coolie's necklace. Hilda picked it up, and
drew in the crude, warm pungency of its smell. She closed her eyes
and drifted on the odour, forgetting her speculations, losing her
feet. All India and all her passion was in that violent,
penetrating fragrance; it brought her, as she gave her senses up to
it, a kind of dual perception of being near the core, the throbbing
centre of the world's meaning.
Next morning the Maharajah was very much annoyed by the
intelligence that all the little red-spotted fishes were floating
flabby and flat and dead among the lily pads of the fountain--there
were few things except Moti that the Maharajah loved better than
his little red-spotted fishes. He wanted very particularly to know
why they should have died in this unanimous and apparently
preconcerted way. The gods had probably killed them by lightning,
but the Maharajah wanted to know. So he sent for the Englishman,
who did not mind touching a dead thing, and the Englishman told him
that the little red-spotted fishes had undoubtedly been poisoned.
Moti was listening when the doctor said this.
A marigold lay in the path, an orange-coloured scrap with a broken
stem, dropped from some coolie's necklace. Hilda picked it up, and
drew in the crude, warm pungency of its smell. She closed her eyes
and drifted on the odour, forgetting her speculations, losing her
feet. All India and all her passion was in that violent,
penetrating fragrance; it brought her, as she gave her senses up to
it, a kind of dual perception of being near the core, the throbbing
centre of the world's meaning.
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