Capitolo 56
any News in the village. The village is without the pale one of
intelligence. This has to be indeed beatitude. Vanity only elaborated, dear, a
state of existence in that there is not political, anybody discoveries, no
trips, any speculations any Pomegranate Wolseleys, any Gladstoneses no
Head Careys any Sarah Bernhardts! If there is a sky on earth,
it is here certainly. Here any Press Commissioner sits on the slant
dark translations that croak from the By the press of Petersburg; here no
_Pioneer_ sings takings with Mr. John Strachey in Board. But here
the has a good time it always sings in sky for, sweet corn grows under, and
the inhabitant of a village, among these calm joys with which earth fills her/it
winds, dreams his/her low life.--YOU HAUL BABA K.C.B.
No XV
THE OLD COLONEL
[The illustration: The Old Colonel--"Maturing for pension."]
"Kwaihaipeglaoandjeldikaro"--_Rigmarole Veda._
[November 15 th 1879.]
The old Indian Colonel that matures for pension on the shelf of General
Duty immediately is a compassionate and laughable object. Its profession has
declined away by him, and he lies a melancholy abandoned on the beach,
with sails that inactively shake against the tree and meaningless flags
dripping in the wind.
He has ever forgotten almost all him learnt of the to have military,
and what he has not forgotten is changed. It is as much as him
you/he/she can make to hold him to the current one of the most advanced thoughts of the Equine Watches
on buttons and gold lace. Still he sometimes has still a job to turn
out a watch, or to swear that "the Service is going", & the c.; and nevertheless
he has lost his/her nerve to have ridden, he still has a good place on a
committee of boot-lace.
He is an old very methodic man. He rises to a first time turns,
down to the baton on the building with many shops--perhaps the Wheler Club, perhaps some
other--it has there his/her tea, newspaper and gossip, and then back to his
small bungalow, [where he results his/her servants to swear parade.
Every finds him/it enough warm; and then the breakfast]. After breakfast him