Under the Deodars by Rudyard Kipling
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Le rgiment n'a pas r'paru. Au Ministre de la Guerre On le r'porta comme perdu. On se r'noncait rtrouver sa trace, Quand un matin subitement, On le vit r'paratre 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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