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Bengal Lancer

1931

He'll have to anthwer the trumpet of the Archangel wrapped in the thkin of a thwine ! The port and madeira described constant ellipses over the long mess table and the elderly Major helped himself at each round. [...] He told me that a certain Mullah of the Powindahs was preaching to the tribesmen from the fateful 5th verse of the 9th chapter of the Koran : " And when the sacred months are past kill those who join other gods with God wherever ye shall find them ; and seize them and slay them and lay in wait for them with every kind of ambush." The murder of the Brigade Major had been a bad business. [...] Later owing to the difficulty of maintaining a stadard in equipment and horseflesh it was found more convenient for the recruit to bring a sum in cash instead of a horse and saddle but the principle rmained the same namely that the apprentice brought the tools of his trade. [...] I find a faded note-book in which the following comments are entered under the influence of an emotion that I cannot exactly recall : In the quiet hour of dawn when the brain seems to be separate from the body and loth to return to the routine of dressing and the daily round there comes to"42 BENGAL LANCER me a desire to rearrange my thoughts. [...] The heat much as I cursed it saved me from a good deal of dreaming and the flail of everyday facts scourged out the introspective devils that lurk in the corners of the soul.
literature fiction
Pages
288
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.143325
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
1-6 F. Yeats-Brown view
Chapter I New Year’s Eve 1905
7-17 unknown view
Chapter II Durbar and a Dog Fight
18-33 unknown view
Chapter III Masheen of the Mirrored Thumbs
34-51 unknown view
Chapter IV The Delhi Road
52-58 unknown view
Chapter V The King Cobra and the Herald of the Star
59-69 unknown view
Chapter VI Polo
70-84 unknown view
Chapter VII Pigsticking
85-101 unknown view
Chapter VIII Men and Mud Turtles
102-120 unknown view
Chapter IX Benares
121-137 unknown view
Chapter X Death of the Devil
138-146 unknown view
Chapter XI Beauty and Boredom
147-164 unknown view
Chapter XII In the Air
165-184 unknown view
Chapter XIII The Long Descent of Wasted Days
185-203 unknown view
Chapter XIV The Long Descent of Wasted Days
204-211 unknown view
Chapter XV The End of Sport and Soldiering
212-220 unknown view
Chapter XVI The Festival of the Fish-Eyed Goddess
221-232 unknown view
Chapter XVII Jaganath Lord of the World
233-254 unknown view
Chapter XVIII The Temple of the Undistracted Mind
255-278 unknown view
Appendix
279-288 unknown view

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