The Indian Bangle
The Indian Bangle by Fergus Hume
English | Dec. 3, 2017 | ISBN: 1973456036 | 240 Pages | PDF | 0.50 MB
English | Dec. 3, 2017 | ISBN: 1973456036 | 240 Pages | PDF | 0.50 MB
A mystery thriller set in England and India concerning a golden bracelet, a sacred ornament taken from a Hindu idol, worn by a young English gentleman born and raised in India.
"By this time you will have received my previous epistle, in which I announced the apoplectic seizure and subsequent demise of my beloved husband, Joshua Ezekiel Purcell, lately a faithful and distinguished servant in the Indian Civil Service of her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen and Empress. As over a month has elapsed since my lifelong companion joined the angelic choir, I am now becoming more resigned to my widowed condition, and I begin to contemplate with equanimity the prospect of a solitary future, enlivened, I trust, by the acceptable companionship of sympathizing friends. In thus submitting myself to the inevitable, I have obeyed the inspired advice of the great lexicographer, as expressed in his masterly ethic poem 'The Vanity of Human Wishes':–
'Pour forth thy fervours for a healthful mind,
Obedient passions, and a will resigned.'