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The Lives of a Bengal Lancer

1930

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.70"New Year's Eve 19o5 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 gth chapter of the Koran: And when the sacred months area 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 standard 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 remained the same namely that the apprentice brought the tools of his trade. [...] I find a faded notebook in which the folloing comments are entered under the influence of an emtion that I cannot exactly recall: In the quiet hour of dawn when the brain seems to be separate from the body and loath to return to the routine of dressing and the daily round there comes to 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
304
Published in
United States
SARF Document ID
sarf.142626
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-vi Francis Yeats-Brown view
Chapter I. new year’s eve 1905
3-13 unknown view
Chapter II. Durbar and a Dog Fight
14-30 unknown view
Chapter III. Masheen of the Mirrored Thumbs
31-49 unknown view
Chapter IV. The Delhi Road
50-57 unknown view
Chapter V. The King Cobra and the Herald of the Star
58-69 unknown view
Chapter VI. Polo
70-85 unknown view
Chapter VII. Pig-Sticking
86-103 unknown view
Chapter VIII. Man and Mud Turtles
104-123 unknown view
Chapter IX. Benares
124-141 unknown view
Chapter X. Death of the Devil
142-151 unknown view
Chapter XI. Beauty and Boredom
152-169 unknown view
Chapter XII. In the Air
170-189 unknown view
Chapter XIII. The Long Descent of Wasted Days
190-209 unknown view
Chapter XIV. Christmas 1918
210-217 unknown view
Chapter XV. The end of Sport and Soldiering
218-227 unknown view
Chapter XVI. The Festinal of the Fish-Eyed Goddess
228-240 unknown view
Chapter XVII. Juggernaut Lord of the World
241-263 unknown view
Chapter XVIII. The Temple of the Undistracted Mind
264-288 unknown view
Appendices
289-299 unknown view
Backmatter
i-i unknown view

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