Capitolo 91
becoming fatiguing it should be always thrown with anything serious,
as the sodawater is thrown with brandy or the Government of India
with the Mr. Whitley Stokes.
Memor of Nigrorum, dum licet, ignium,
Misce stultitiam consiliis brevem:
Desipere of east of Dulce in locomotive.
But besides the being a man of pleasure and a capital player of billiards, him
it was a Collector in the North-western Provinces--a man to that he/she sat the
receipt of custom under a punkah, and he/she read his/her _Pioneer_. The God
Tall Cockalorum to Nynee Tal, Mr. Someone whom Thingmajig,--I am speaking
of years ago--it doesn't like, I believe; but nobody thought any the
worse of him for this; and even if he continued to be a Collector
up to that the shades in the evening, when all of his/her contemporaries had retired
in the Dreamland of Police stations, he still loved, and it was beloved;
and to the very last one he read his/her French novels and quoted Horace,
peacefully sitting on the bank while the brook of promotion rolled
on, knowing well that would roll on aevum_ of omne of _in, and not thoughtful
an iota if it did, or it didn't do. What was a place to the Sadr
Board[BB] to him, a place among the solemn mummies of the service? Him
it would not object to lie in the same cemetery with them; but to sit to
the same axle while this warm judicious motion of the life still continued
it was too much; this could be never. He belonged to a taller order of
spirits. As a boy he had not swapped the music of his/her soul for
Oriental languages and the lease he/she Reads; and as an old man he would not sit
in state with dead bodies weakly animated by rupees.
To the last he mocked promotion; he mocked, you cultivate the mocker feared staid
mocking fingers on his/her liver, and up to prank and laughter you/he/she was made to keep silent
forever. Then the Collector died, the happy Collector; and "where
will we bury the happy Collector?" become the last problem for his
friends to give with. I went far street in earths to the duration with another