Chapter I: Front Matter

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THE SIMPLE ADVENTURES OF A MEMSAHIB

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BY THE SAME AUTHOR.

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A SOCIAL DEPARTURE: How Orthodocia and I Went Round the World by
Ourselves. With 111 Illustrations by F. H. TOWNSEND. 12mo. Paper, 75
cents; cloth, $1.75.

“Widely read and praised on both sides of the Atlantic and Pacific, with scores of illustrations which fit the text exactly and show the mind of artist and writer in unison.”—New York Evening Post.

“It is to be doubted whether another book can be found so thoroughly amusing from beginning to end.”—Boston Daily Advertiser.

“For sparkling wit, irresistibly contagious fun, keen observation, absolutely poetic appreciation of natural beauty, and vivid descriptiveness, it has no recent rival.”—Mrs. P. T. BARNUM’S Letter to the New York Tribune.

“A brighter, merrier, more entirely charming book would be, indeed, difficult to find.”—St. Louis Republic.

AN AMERICAN GIRL IN LONDON. With 80 Illustrations by F. H. TOWNSEND.
12mo. Paper, 75 cents; cloth, $1.50.

“One of the most naïve and entertaining books of the season.”—New York Observer.

“The raciness and breeziness which made ‘A Social Departure,’ by the same author, last season, the best-read and most-talked-of book of travel for many a year, permeate the new book, and appear between the lines of every page.”—Brooklyn Standard-Union.

“So sprightly a book as this, on life in London as observed by an American, has never before been written.”—Philadelphia Bulletin.

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D. APPLETON & CO., PUBLISHERS, NEW YORK.

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THE SIMPLE ADVENTURES OF A MEMSAHIB

by

SARA JEANNETTE DUNCAN

Author of A Social Departure, An American Girl In London, etc.

With Illustrations by F. H. Townsend

New York D. Appleton and Company 1893

Copyright, 1893, by D. Appleton and Company.

Electrotyped and Printed at the Appleton Press, U. S. A.

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

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They came in little straggling Frontispiece
strings and bands

Cups of tea 3

Young Browne’s tennis 5

Her new field of labour 15

Aunt Plovtree 19

Initial letter 24

Initial letter 49

Uncertain whether she ought to 57
bow

“It’s just the place for 63
centipedes”

Initial letter 68

“A very worthy and 79
hard-working sort”

“What is this?” said Mrs. 87
Browne

Chua 94

An accident disclosed them 96

Mr. Sayter 136

Mr. Sayter gave Mrs. Browne 138
his arm

Mrs. Lovitt 151

Initial letter 156

The ladies went most securely 159

Initial letter 168

Mr. Jonas Batcham, M. P. 175

Three others much like himself 187

A sudden indisposition 191

Initial letter 193

Their hats 210

Initial letter 214

“Halma” 222

Miss Josephine Lovitt 225

Initial letter 234

Mr. Week slept on a bench 243

He stood upon one leg 252

Initial letter 260

Initial letter 278

He asked nothing of the 282
Brownes

The snows 291

“Liver complications—we all 297
come to it”

She has fallen into a way of 309
crossing her knees in a low
chair

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THE SIMPLE ADVENTURES OF A MEMSAHIB.

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