My father is an Arab, my mother a Gujarati Khoja with a memsahib upbringing. |
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That includes Lady Eleanor, the memsahib with her elaborate gowns and regimented code of behavior. |
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Her mother shook her head, but her father laughed and called her his little memsahib. |
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As the Corfiotes were to our subaltern, as the Bengalis were to many a memsahib, as the Elbans probably were to Napoleon, so the people of Tomis were, but a hundred times worse, to the ageing Ovid in his banishment. |
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