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Talbot Mundy. A Soldier and a Gentleman
A Soldier and a Gentleman
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. GENTLEMEN, SIR!
CHAPTER II. A GENTLEMAN DOES HIS DUTY
CHAPTER III. THE OLD MAN LANDS ON BOILEAU
CHAPTER IV. A VILLAGER EARNS HIS SALT
CHAPTER V. BOILEAU RUNS A RISK
CHAPTER VI. DOST MOHAMMED GOES ON A STILL HUNT
CHAPTER VII. BOILEAU CALLS AGAIN
CHAPTER VIII “GOPI LALL”
CHAPTER IX. THE PANCH MAHAL’S BACK DOOR
CHAPTER X. THE COLONEL RETRACTS A STATEMENT
CHAPTER XI
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Talbot Mundy
Published by Good Press, 2020
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He looked round the table, not for approval—for the Colonel of a Regiment says what seems good to him and that again is law—but for attention. He had it. The eight who sat with him were men who, each in turn, was almost worshiped by a native officer and a hundred stiff-chinned soldiers, who wasted no worship or respect on anything else less manly than themselves. But when Colonel Stapleton laid down the law, the eight would listen as shaven friars to their abbot.
“Now God forbid that we soldiers should become policemen! Let us remain soldiers before everything! The proudest boast that England has to her name is the raising of such regiments as this. Is there another nation that could call on native gentlemen, pay them nothing, or practically nothing, ask them to clothe and horse and feed themselves, form them into regiments, swear them in for three years and keep them for thirty, discipline them, let them officer their own troops, but put our own officers over theirs; and in spite of a difference in religion, language, customs and point of view produce such regiments? No, gentlemen! England stands alone in that particular, and long may she stand alone!”
