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orders him for the day in of the indefinite white uniform, and with
a beret of forage gaily hammered him on a side of its head, a blunt cigar in his
you speak to emphatic way and a great white umbrella in his/her hand, him again the sallies before
to the Baton. An old horse is conducted behind him.
Now the serious business of the life it starts again--to get through the day.
There are six newspapers to read, twelve pegs to drink,
four-and-twenty blunt cigar of Madras to smoke there is kind tiffin to
you linger on, forty winks later, a game of billiards, the ribbon on
the building with many shops, supper and on everybody, incessant noise they chat, old
scandal, the old jokes and the old histories. Each likes the old Colonel,
clearly. Each says, "Here it comes to old poor Smith; that that an infernal
annoy him is!" "Hulloa, Colonel as it is? cheer to see her/it! what is
the news? as it is change?"
The old Colonel is not avid, but him salute money. He cannot help
it. He doesn't have tastes and him it draws very great you pay. His/her mind, therefore,
you brood on questions related to the investment of money, the
the silver depreciation, and the saving effected purchasing things
to co-operational shops. He resolves some problem really suggested never
from these themes. His/her mind it is not prehensile as the tail of the
Apollo Bundar; everything eludes his/her taking, so its searches are
terminable. The cerebral caloric scorching of the old Colonel with a weak
you sparkle, as that of the secretariats of Madras, and it never consumes a
subject. The same theme is always combustible coolness. It is probable that you say the same
thing to him every morning, to the same time up to the crack of decree,
and he would never remember that he had felt first Your comment.
This certainly has to give a freshness to the life and the first-hand eternity of plaster
possible.
The old Colonel naturally is not an indolent man but the prominent one
done around him it is that he doesn't have anything to do. If you gave him/it a
sun-quadrant to take takes care of him of, or a rain-indicator of level to look, or a secret to