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Under the Deodars by Rudyard Kipling
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Le r‚giment n'a pas r'paru.

Au MinistŠre de la Guerre

On le r'porta comme perdu.

On se r'noncait … rtrouver sa trace,

Quand un matin subitement,

On le vit r'paraŒtre sur la place,

L'Colonel toujours en avant.

That's the way she rolls her r's. Am I like her?

He. No, but I object when you go on like an actress and sing stuff
of that kind. Where in the world did you pick up the Chanson du
Colonel? It isn't a drawing-room song. It isn't proper.

She. Mrs. Buzgago taught it me. She is both drawing-room and
proper, and in another month she'll shut her drawing-room to me,
and thank God she isn't as improper as I am. Oh, Guy, Guy! I wish
I was like some women and had no scruples about What is it
Keene says? 'Wearing a corpse's hair and being false to the bread
they eat.'

He. I am only a man of limited intelligence, and, just now, very
bewildered. When you have quite finished flashing through all
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