So he borrowed the name of a friend who had gone to Pondicherry.

Our orders were to keep within the hotel garden, and thus in masterly inactivity we passed the afternoon and evening.

The heat was intense, and the gay town deserted.

Indeed, one half of the shops were closed.
I went to bed early, and was already asleep when a great rapping aroused me.

It was Sander's colleague, who came into my room, and dismissed the waiter who had brought him thither.