Life's Handicap: Being Stories of Mine Own People

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Macmillan, 1892 - 366 頁

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第 219 頁 - Almighty! In place of this my son I offer life for life, blood for blood, head for head, bone for bone, hair for hair, skin for skin.
第 178 頁 - There was a little pause, but the man sprung to his feet and answered without hesitation, " The Queen, God bless her ! " and as he emptied the thin glass he snapped the shank between his fingers. Long and long ago, when the Empress of India was a young woman and there were no unclean ideals in the land, it was the custom...
第 322 頁 - There came to the beach a poor exile of Erin, The dew on his thin robe was heavy and chill : For his country he sighed when at twilight repairing To wander alone by the wind-beaten hill. But the day-star attracted his eye's sad devotion, For it rose o'er his own native isle of the ocean...
第 223 頁 - The two sleek, white well-bullocks in the courtyard were steadily chewing the cud of their evening meal; old Pir Khan squatted at the head of Holden's horse, his police sabre across his knees, pulling drowsily at a big water-pipe that croaked like a bull-frog in a pond. Ameera's mother sat spinning in the lower verandah, and the wooden gate was shut and barred.
第 172 頁 - Hear ! Hear ! Hear, indeed ! Bravo ! Hsh !") " Then we will play youafresh" ("Happy to meet you.") "till there are left no feet upon our ponies. Thus far for sport." He dropped one hand on his sword-hilt and his eye wandered to Dirkovitch lolling back in his chair. " But if by the will of God there arises any other game which is not the polo game then be assured...
第 vii 頁 - Clumps of mangoes sprouted from between the bricks; great pipal trees overhung the well-windlass that whined all day; and hosts of parrots tore through the trees. Crows and squirrels were tame in that place, for they knew that never a priest would touch them. The wandering mendicants, charm-sellers, and holy vagabonds for a hundred miles round used to make the Chubara their place of call and rest.
第 228 頁 - Holden realized his pain slowly, exactly as he had realized his happiness, and with the same imperious necessity for hiding all trace of it. In the beginning he only felt that there had been a loss, and that Ameera needed comforting, where she sat with her head on her knees shivering as Mian Mittu from the...
第 224 頁 - I did not think of these things; but now I think of them always. It is very hard talk." " It will fall as it will fall. To-morrow we do not know, but to-day and love we know well. Surely we are happy now." " So happy that it were well to make our happiness assured. And thy Beebee Miriam should listen to me ; for she is also a woman. But then she would envy me ! It is not seemly for men to worship a woman." Holden laughed aloud at Ameera's little spasm of jealousy. " Is it not seemly ? Why didst thou...

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