{"id":5969,"date":"2014-09-28T19:00:07","date_gmt":"2014-09-28T18:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/?p=5969"},"modified":"2014-08-08T22:33:22","modified_gmt":"2014-08-08T21:33:22","slug":"the-duchess-of-pantulicon-and-the-candahar-cabul-tramway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/the-duchess-of-pantulicon-and-the-candahar-cabul-tramway\/","title":{"rendered":"The Duchess of Pantulicon and the Candahar – Cabul Tramway"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the 1879 novel The Honourable Ella, A Tale of Foxshire<\/a><\/i>, page 96, Book III, by William Ulick O’Connor Cuffe<\/a>, 4th Earl of Desart. <\/p>\n

As far as I know there never was a Candahar-Cabul Tramway Company (Limited)…<\/p>\n

Of course Lord Lorton found no difficulty
\nin suiting himself with dinner companions
\nat the Club, and, as it happened, the men
\nnear whom he sat were all of that new-
\nclass which has lately sprung up in Lon-
\ndon ; the mixture of man of fashion with
\nman of business \u2014 half Belgrave Square,
\nhalf Stock Exchange \u2014 one pocket full of
\ninvitations to balls, the other stuffed with
\ncoupons and bills at three months ; swells
\nin the City ; City men in the West End ;
\nlaughed at in Capel Court because of their
\nfine-gentlemanism, and in Hyde Park be-
\ncause of their money-grubbing ; the mules
\nof social life, of no particular breed, but
\nuseful ; not quite so good-looking as horses,
\nand not quite so ugly as asses. Dining
\nwith Alderman Grundy, they talk of the
\nDuchess of Pantulicon’s last little party.
\nDining with Her Grace, they awe her by
\ntheir intimate knowledge of the remote
\nfuture of the Candahar-Cabul Tramway
\nCompany (Limited)<\/strong>. A grand invention
\nof our “idle day,” but liable to wear out.
\nAnd there are some so dense as not to
\nregret this want of stability ! <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the 1879 novel The Honourable Ella, A Tale of Foxshire, page 96, Book III, by William Ulick O’Connor Cuffe, 4th Earl of Desart. As far as I know there never was a Candahar-Cabul Tramway Company (Limited)… Of course Lord Lorton found no difficulty in suiting himself with dinner companions at the Club, and, as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistans-railways"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5969"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5973,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5969\/revisions\/5973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}