CHAPTER XV.
The day's work over, Gobind Lâl went, according to his daily custom, to stroll in the flower garden on the banks of the Bârunî tank. Walking amongst his flowers was one of Gobind Lâl's principal pleasures. Under each tree he would linger lovingly, but we will not describe every tree. Amid the shrubs there rose a lofty stone pedestal on which stood a white marble figure of a woman, half-draped, with downcast eyes, pouring water on her feet from a jug. All round her on the pedestal stood brightly coloured pots containing plants of geranium, verbena, euphorbia, the Indian chrysanthemum, and rose; surrounding the base of the pedestal rows of jessamine, gardenia, and other sweetly scented indigenous shrubs perfumed the air, and beyond them many sorts of flowering trees, native and foreign, blue, yellow, red, white, and many-coloured,
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