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Life's Handicap
Rudyard Kipling
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She put her hand up to her hair, which had come out of its top-knot and was straggling about her face. She tried to set her ragged dress in order, but the dress was past pulling straight, and she coughed a queer little cough, for she really had taken a very bad cold. Gillis looked, too, but while Georgina only looked at the Bride once, turning her eyes always on Georgie Porgie, Gillis looked at the Bride all the time.
'What are you going to do?' said Gillis, who held Georgina by the wrist, in case of any unexpected rush into the lamplight. 'Will you go in and tell that English woman that you lived with her husband?'
'No,' said Georgina faintly. 'Let me go. I am going away. I swear that I am going away.' She twisted herself free and ran off into the dark.
'Poor little beast!' said Gillis, dropping on to the main road. 'I'd ha' given her something to get back to Burma with. W. . . Read More
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Not what I expected, despite his problematic ideals I found the book tame at times considering what I have been told of Kipling. Not my favorite of the limited works of his that I have read, but certainly different from "White Man's Burden."
These early stories display Kipling's extraordinary mastery of the art of immersing the reader in a place and situation, primarily through his ear for the rhythms of speech but also via the very structures of what he wrote. Almost all of these stories are set in the Indian subcontinent, with protago
Originally published on my blog here in October 2000.
Rudyard Kipling produced a large number of short stories, including some of his best known writing (The Jungle Book, for example, being a collection of connected tales). They are quite varied, even when dealing with a specific theme, as here: Life
Many of Kipling's stories here are based in India given his time spent there. I liked his description of Mulvaney, the Irishman in the Brit army: "When I woke I saw Mulvaney, the night dew gemming his mustache, leaning on his rifle at picket, lonely as Prometheus on his rock, with I know not what vu