Rudyard Kipling : The Complete Novels and Stories. Редьярд Джозеф Киплинг
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Название: Rudyard Kipling : The Complete Novels and Stories

Автор: Редьярд Джозеф Киплинг

Издательство: Bookwire

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СКАЧАТЬ target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="#ulink_6fe34443-9788-5b1a-9043-cd793a0384a4">Thrown Away

       Miss Youghal’s Sais

       “Yoked with an Unbeliever”

       False Dawn

       The Rescue of Pluffles

       Cupid’s Arrows

       The Three Musketeers

       His Chance in Life

       Watches of the Night

       The Other Man

       Consequences

       The Conversion of Aurelian McGoggin

       The Taking of Lungtungpen

       A Germ-Destroyer

       Kidnapped

       The Arrest of Lieutenant Golightly

       In the House of Suddhoo

       His Wedded Wife

       The Broken Link Handicap

       Beyond the Pale

       In Error

       A Bank Fraud

       Tods’ Amendment

       The Daughter of the Regiment

       In the Pride of His Youth

       Pig

       The Rout of the White Hussars

       The Bronckhorst Divorce-Case

       Venus Annodomini

       The Bisara of Pooree

       A Friend’s Friend

       The Gate of the Hundred Sorrows

       The Madness of Private Ortheris

       The Story of Muhammad Din

       On the Strength of a Likeness

       Wressley of the Foreign Office

       By Word of Mouth

       To be Filed for Reference

       To

       THE WITTIEST WOMAN IN INDIA

       I Dedicate This Book

      Eight and twenty of these tales appeared originally in the Civil and Military Gazette. I am indebted to the kindness of the Proprietors of that paper for permission to reprint them. The remaining tales are, more or less, new.

       Rudyard Kipling.

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      Look, you have cast out Love! What Gods are these

      You bid me please?

      The Three in One, the One in Three? Not so!

      To my own Gods I go.

      It may be they shall give me greater ease

      Than your cold Christ and tangled Trinities.

      The Convert.

      She was the daughter of Sonoo, a Hill-man, and Jadéh his wife. One year their maize failed, and two bears spent the night in their only poppy-field just above the Sutlej Valley on the Kotgarh side; so, next season, they turned Christian, and brought their baby to the Mission to be baptised. The Kotgarh Chaplain christened her Elizabeth, and “Lispeth” is the Hill or pahari pronunciation.

      Later, cholera came into the Kotgarh Valley and carried off Sonoo and Jadéh, and Lispeth became СКАЧАТЬ