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holds, he would be pleased completely. I asked once to Smith to hold a secret
of mine, and the old poor individual was so very afraid to lose him/it that
in some times he had each in the help of station him to hold
it. It always catches me that men with so a lot of time on their hands
doesn't become Political Agents.
Our old Colonel sometimes takes the habit of flagitious to write
for the newspapers. Him he talks in thinking that he possesses a
damage, so he puts together a fasciculus of cut-sided sentences,
it finds the set of ideas right from the Doctor, the spelling it put to new
from the Chaplain and fires by the product to the _Delhi Gazette_
or the _Himalayan Chronicle_. Then days of feverish excitement
supervene, hope that alternates with fear. Will it appear? Wants the
Is supreme commander offended? Will the Government of India be angry?
What will it say the Service?
The old Colonel is always rather mistrustful of the great lift-hats
to head-quarters. He knows whether to maintain an air of their activity
it still owes to be changing anything or it has to abolish anything, and he is
always afraid that they will change or they will abolish him. But as it was able them
do you change the old Colonel? In a regiment he would be as Alice in
Country of the wonder; on the Personnel he would be as the old wine in a new bottle.
It is probable that they manufacture him to them a K.C.B., it is true; but he doesn't belong
Hope's Simla Band, and to the stars it doesn't have to be permitted to madly shoot
from their sphere. As to abolishing the old Colonel, this also introduces,
his/her difficulties, for Mr. Norman Henry and all the famous
lift-hats in house and the foreign countries it reputes the Personal Indian Body as
Pygmalion looked on his/her Venus. They has grown foolish on his/her lifeless charms, and
(figuredly) hooks to hook him/it in their arm foolish. [Now the old one
Colonel is the trunk of this Frankenstein--to change the scene. Then us
it doesn't have to abolish the old Colonel.]
Elegant farsilo is best in an old red coat, and he/she picks above it up to blows to