 | Gabrielle Festing - 1914 - 526 Seiten
...on its way, until some forty years after the event, good Bishop Heber shuddered to hear that the " very little queer-looking old woman, with brilliant...eyes, and the remains of beauty in her features," had watched an erring nautch - girl bricked up in a vault beneath the hall where she was about to give... | |
 | United Service Institution of India - 1919 - 610 Seiten
...semi royal state at Sardhana. Biship Heber who saw her iu 1825 described her as a very queer looking old woman with brilliant but wicked eyes and the remains of beauty in her features. That she was a lady with a temper is shown by the following anecdote which is given in all accouuts... | |
 | Mesrovb Jacob Seth - 1983 - 696 Seiten
...Muhammadan dancing girl and a native of Cashmere. According to Bishop Heber. she was, in 1823, a "a little queer-looking old woman, with brilliant but...eyes, and the remains of beauty in her features." She embraced in 1781 the Christian faith, was baptised into the Roman Catholic Church, and christened Johanna... | |
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She is a very little, queer-looking old woman, with brilliant, but wicked eyes, and the remains of beauty in her features. 
