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published many years later.[22] During his time there, Kipling also met and fell in love with Florence
Garrard, a fellow boarder with Trix at Southsea (to which Trix had returned). Florence was to become the
model for Maisie in Kipling's first novel, The Light that Failed (1891).[22] Towards the end of his stay at the
school, it was decided that he lacked the academic ability to get into Oxford University on a
scholarship[22] and his parents lacked the wherewithal to finance him; [16] consequently, Lockwood Kipling
obtained a job for his son in Lahore (now in Pakistan), where Lockwood was now Principal of the Mayo
College of Art and Curator of the Lahore Museum. Kipling was to be assistant editor of a small local
newspaper, the Civil & Military Gazette. He sailed for India on 20 September 1882 and arrived in
Bombay on 18 October 1882. This arrival changed Kipling, as he explains, "There were yet three or four
days' rail to Lahore, where my people lived
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