But one noble passage still lives, and is repeated by thousands who know not whence it comes.

[155] Though nothing yet indicated the high political destiny of the East India Company, that body had a great sway in the City of London.

The offices, which stood on a very small part of the ground which the present offices cover, had escaped the ravages of the fire.

The India House of those days was a building of timber and plaster, rich with the quaint carving and lattice-work of the Elizabethan age.

Above the windows was a painting which represented a fleet of merchantmen tossing on the waves.