Greatest Short Stories, Volume 7P. F. Collier & son, 1915 - Short stories |
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Page 380 - T'HE SON of GOD goes forth to war, A kingly crown to gain, His blood-red banner streams afar ; Who follows in His train? Who best can drink His cup of woe, Triumphant over pain, Who patient bears his cross below, He follows in His train.
Page 348 - Print off,' and turned to go, when there crept to my chair what was left of a man. He was bent into a circle, his head was sunk between his shoulders, and he moved his feet one over the other like a bear. I could hardly see whether he walked or crawled — this rag-wrapped, whining cripple who addressed me by name, crying that he was come back. 'Can you give me a drink?
Page 375 - Let's get to Bashkai, then,' says Dan, 'and, 378 by God, when I come back here again I'll sweep the valley so there isn'ta bug in a blanket left !' "We walked all that day, and all that night Dan was stumping up and down on the snow, chewing his beard and muttering to himself. " 'There's no hope o' getting clear,
Page 339 - Yes, of course,' I said. 'You've been tramping in the sun, and it's a very warm night, and hadn't you better sleep over the notion? Come to-morrow.' ' Neither drunk nor sunstruck,' said Dravot. ' We have slept over the notion half a year, and require to see Books and Atlases, and we have decided that there is only one place now in the world that two strong men can Sar-awhack.
Page 366 - There are no more men coming in to be drilled this autumn. Look at those fat, black clouds. They're bringing the snow.
Page 338 - Well and good,' said Carnehan of the eyebrows, wiping the froth from his moustache. 'Let me talk now, Dan. We have been all over India, mostly on foot. We have been boiler-fitters, engine-drivers, petty contractors, and all that, and we have decided that India isn't big enough for such as us.
Page 334 - ... touch, and nobody writes anything but accounts of amusements in the Hill-stations or obituary notices. Then the telephone becomes a tinkling terror, because it tells you of the sudden deaths of men and women that you knew intimately, and the...
Page 328 - Have you ever tried that trick?" I asked. "Again and again, but the Residents find you out, and then you get escorted to the Border before you've time to get your knife into them. But about my friend here. I must give him a word o' mouth to tell him what's come to me or else he won't know where to go.
Page 345 - What d'you think o' that?" said he in English. "Carnehan can't talk their patter, so I've made him my servant. He makes a handsome servant. 'Tisn't for nothing that I've been knocking about the country for fourteen years. Didn't I do that talk neat? We'll hitch on to a caravan at...
Page 370 - How should a man tell you, who knows everything ? How can daughters of men marry Gods or Devils? It's not proper.' "I remembered something like that in the Bible; but if, after seeing us as long as they had, they still believed we were Gods, it wasn't for me to undeceive them. "'A God can do anything,