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The Simple Adventures of a Memsahib

Chapter 3: LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
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A young woman who becomes a memsahib in India navigates colonial society, balancing household duties, social rituals, and the matchmaking pressures of expatriate life. The narrative sketches her provincial background, gentle courtships, and participation in everyday amusements such as tennis and tea, while portraying interactions among families and fellow memsahibs. Episodes blend light comedy and keen social observation, offering vignettes of travel between plains and hill stations and of domestic routines. The work is structured as a series of episodic adventures and character studies that emphasize manners, picturesque details, and the contrasts of life abroad rather than a single dramatic arc.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.


They came in little straggling strings and bands Frontispiece
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 bow 57
“It’s just the place for centipedes” 63
Initial letter 68
“A very worthy and hard-working sort” 79
“What is this?” said Mrs. Browne 87
Chua 94
An accident disclosed them 96
Mr. Sayter 136
Mr. Sayter gave Mrs. Browne his arm 138
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 Brownes 282
The snows 291
“Liver complications—we all come to it” 297
She has fallen into a way of crossing her knees in a low chair 309

THE SIMPLE ADVENTURES OF A MEMSAHIB.