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    Under the Deodars by Rudyard Kipling - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)
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    Rudyard Kipling

    Rudyard Kipling was born in India in 1865. After intermittently moving between India and England during his early life, he settled in the latter in 1889, published his novel The Light That Failed in 1891 and married Caroline (Carrie) Balestier the following year. They returned to her home in Brattleboro, Vermont, where Kipling wrote both The Jungle Book and its sequel, as well as Captains Courageous. He continued to write prolifically and was the first Englishman to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907 but his later years were darkened by the death of his son John at the Battle of Loos in 1915. He died in 1936.

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      Under the Deodars by Rudyard Kipling - Delphi Classics (Illustrated) - Rudyard Kipling

      The Complete Works of

      RUDYARD KIPLING

      VOLUME 9 OF 51

      Under the Deodars

      Parts Edition

      By Delphi Classics, 2015

      Version 5

      COPYRIGHT

      ‘Under the Deodars’

      Rudyard Kipling: Parts Edition (in 51 parts)

      First published in the United Kingdom in 2017 by Delphi Classics.

      © Delphi Classics, 2017.

      All rights reserved.  No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of the publisher, nor be otherwise circulated in any form other than that in which it is published.

      ISBN: 978 1 78877 250 1

      Delphi Classics

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      Delphi Publishing Ltd

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      Rudyard Kipling: Parts Edition

      This eBook is Part 9 of the Delphi Classics edition of Rudyard Kipling in 51 Parts. It features the unabridged text of Under the Deodars from the bestselling edition of the author’s Complete Works. Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. Our Parts Editions feature original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of Rudyard Kipling, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily.

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      RUDYARD KIPLING

      IN 51 VOLUMES

      Parts Edition Contents

      The Stalky Stories

      The Novels

      1, The Light that Failed

      2, The Naulahka, a Story of West and East

      3, Captains Courageous

      4, Kim

      The Shorter Fiction

      5, The City of Dreadful Night

      6, Quartette

      7, Plain Tales from the Hills

      8, Soldiers Three and Other Stories

      9, Under the Deodars

      10, The Phantom Rickshaw and Other Eerie Tales

      11, Wee Willie Winkie and Other Child Stories

      12, Life’s Handicap

      13, Many Inventions

      14, The Jungle Book

      15, The Second Jungle Book

      16, The Day’s Work

      17, Stalky & Co.

      18, Just So Stories for Little Children

      19, Traffics and Discoveries

      20, Puck of Pook’s Hill

      21, Actions and Reactions

      22, Abaft the Funnel

      23, Rewards and Fairies

      24, A Diversity of Creatures

      25, Land and Sea Tales for Scouts and Guides

      26, Debits and Credits

      27, Thy Servant a Dog

      28, Limits and Renewals

      29, Tales of India: The Windermere Series

      30, The Complete Stalky & Co

      31, Proofs of Holy Writ

      The Travel Writing

      32, From Sea to Sea – Letters of Travel: 1887-1889

      33, American Notes

      34, Letters of Travel: 1892-1913

      35, Souvenirs of France

      36, Brazilian Sketches

      The Poetry

      37, The Complete Poems

      The Non-Fiction

      38, A Fleet in Being

      39, A History of England

      40, The New Army in Training

      41, France at War

      42, The Fringes of the Fleet

      43, Sea Warfare

      44, The War in the Mountains

      45, The Graves of the Fallen

      46, The Irish Guards in the Great War

      47, The Eyes of Asia

      48, How Shakspere Came to Write the ‘Tempest’

      The Speeches

      49, The Book of Words

      The Criticism

      50, The Criticism

      The Autobiography

      51, Something of Myself

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      Under the Deodars

      Published in 1888, this 100 page collection of short stories was originally printed for readers in a one shilling booklet.

      The original booklet

      CONTENTS

      THE EDUCATION OF OTIS YEERE

      AT THE PIT’S MOUTH

      A WAYSIDE COMEDY

      THE HILL OF ILLUSION

      A SECOND-RATE WOMAN

      ONLY A SUBALTERN

      IN THE MATTER OF A PRIVATE

      THE ENLIGHTENMENTS OF PAGETT, M.P.

      THE EDUCATION OF OTIS YEERE

      I

           In the pleasant orchard-closes

              ‘God bless all our gains,’ say we;

           But ‘May God bless all our losses,’

              Better suits with our degree.

                  The Lost Bower.

      This is the history of a failure; but the woman who failed said that it might be an instructive tale to put into print for the benefit of the younger generation. The younger generation does not want instruction, being perfectly willing to instruct if any one will listen to it. None the less, here begins the story where every right-minded story should begin, that is to say at Simla, where all things begin and many come to an evil end.

      The mistake was due to a very clever woman making a blunder and not retrieving it. Men are licensed to stumble, but a clever woman’s mistake is outside the regular course of Nature and Providence; since all good people know that a woman is the only infallible thing in this world, except Government Paper of the ‘79 issue, bearing interest at four and a half per cent. Yet, we have to remember that six consecutive days of rehearsing the leading part of The Fallen Angel, at the New Gaiety Theatre where the plaster is not yet properly dry, might have brought about an unhingement of spirits which, again, might have led to eccentricities.

      Mrs. Hauksbee came to ‘The Foundry’ to tiffin with Mrs. Mallowe, her one bosom friend, for she was in no sense ‘a woman’s woman.’ And it was a woman’s tiffin, the door shut to all the world; and they both talked chiffons, which is French for Mysteries.

      ‘I’ve enjoyed an interval of sanity,’ Mrs. Hauksbee announced, after tiffin was over and the two were comfortably settled in the little writing-room that opened out of Mrs. Mallowe’s bedroom.

      ‘My dear girl, what has he done?’ said Mrs. Mallowe sweetly. It is noticeable that ladies of a certain age call each other ‘dear girl,’ just as commissioners of twenty-eight years’ standing address their equals in the Civil List as ‘my boy.’

      ‘There’s no he in the case. Who am I that an imaginary man should be always credited to me? Am I an Apache?’

      ‘No, dear, but somebody’s scalp is generally drying at your wigwam-door. Soaking rather.’

      This was an allusion to the Hawley Boy, who was in the habit of riding all across Simla in the Rains, to call on Mrs. Hauksbee. That lady laughed.

      ‘For my sins, the Aide at Tyrconnel last night told me off to The Mussuck. Hsh! Don’t laugh. One of my most devoted admirers. When the duff came some one really ought to teach them to make puddings at Tyrconnel The Mussuck was at liberty to attend to me.’

      ‘Sweet soul! I know his appetite,’ said Mrs. Mallowe. ‘Did he, oh did he, begin his wooing?’

      ‘By a special mercy of Providence, no. He explained his importance as a Pillar of the Empire. I didn’t laugh.’

      ‘Lucy, I don’t believe you.’

      ‘Ask Captain Sangar; he was on the other side. Well, as I was saying, The Mussuck dilated.’

      ‘I think I can see him doing it,’ said Mrs. Mallowe pensively, scratching her fox-terrier’s ears.

      ‘I was properly impressed. Most properly. I yawned openly. Strict supervision, and play them off one against the other, said The Mussuck, shovelling down his ice by tureenfuls, I assure you. That, Mrs. Hauksbee, is the secret of our Government.’

      Mrs. Mallowe laughed long and merrily. ‘And what did you say?’

      ‘Did you ever know me at loss for an answer yet? I said: So I have observed in my dealings with you. The Mussuck swelled with pride. He is coming to call on me to-morrow. The Hawley Boy is coming too.’

      ‘Strict supervision and play them off one against the other. That, Mrs. Hauksbee, is the secret of our Government. And I daresay if we could get to The Mussuck’s heart, we should find that he considers himself a man of the world.’

      ‘As he is of the other two things. I like The Mussuck, and I won’t have you call him names. He amuses me.’

      ‘He has reformed you, too, by what appears. Explain the interval of sanity, and hit Tim on the nose with the paper-cutter, please. That dog is too fond of sugar. Do you take milk in yours?’

      ‘No, thanks. Polly, I’m wearied of this life. It’s hollow.’

      ‘Turn religious, then. I always said that Rome would be your fate.’

      ‘Only exchanging half-a-dozen attaches in red for one in black, and if I fasted, the wrinkles would come, and never, never go. Has it ever struck you, dear, that I’m getting old?’

      ‘Thanks for your courtesy. I’ll return it. Ye-es, we are both not exactly how shall I put it?’

      ‘What we have been. I feel it in my bones, as Mrs. Crossley says. Polly, I’ve wasted my life.’

      ‘As how?’

      ‘Never mind how. I feel it. I want to be a Power before I die.’

      ‘Be a Power then. You’ve wits enough for anything and beauty!’

      Mrs. Hauksbee pointed a teaspoon straight at her hostess. ‘Polly, if you heap compliments on me like this, I shall cease to believe that you’re a woman. Tell me how I am to be a Power.’

      ‘Inform The Mussuck that he is the most fascinating and slimmest man in Asia, and he’ll tell you anything and everything you please.’

      ‘Bother The Mussuck! I mean an intellectual Power not a gas-power. Polly, I’m going to start a salon.’

      Mrs. Mallowe turned lazily on the sofa and rested her head on her hand. ‘Hear the words of the Preacher, the son of Baruch,’ she said.

      ‘Will you talk sensibly?’

      ‘I will, dear, for I see that you are going to make a mistake.’

      ‘I never made a mistake in my life at least, never one that I couldn’t explain away afterwards.’

      ‘Going to make a mistake,’ went on Mrs. Mallowe composedly. ‘It is impossible to start a salon in Simla. A bar would be much more to the point.’

      ‘Perhaps, but why? It seems so easy.’

      ‘Just what makes it so difficult. How many clever women are there in Simla?’

      ‘Myself and yourself,’ said Mrs. Hauksbee, without a moment’s hesitation.

      ‘Modest woman! Mrs. Feardon would thank you for that. And how many clever men?’

      ‘Oh er hundreds,’ said Mrs. Hauksbee vaguely.

      ‘What a fatal blunder! Not one. They are all bespoke by the Government. Take my husband, for instance. Jack was a clever man, though I say so who shouldn’t. Government has eaten him up. All his ideas and powers of conversation he really used to be a good talker, even to his wife in the old days are taken from him by this this kitchen-sink of a Government. That’s the case with every man up here who is at work. I don’t suppose a Russian convict under the knout is able to amuse the rest of his gang; and all our men-folk here are gilded convicts.’

      ‘But there are scores—’

      ‘I know what you’re going to say. Scores of idle men up on leave. I admit it, but they are all of two objectionable sets. The Civilian who’d be delightful if he had the military man’s knowledge of the world and style, and the military man who’d be adorable if he had the Civilian’s culture.’

      ‘Detestable word! Have Civilians culchaw? I never studied the breed deeply.’

      ‘Don’t make fun of Jack’s Service. Yes. They’re like the teapoys in the Lakka Bazar good material but not polished. They can’t help themselves, poor dears. A Civilian only begins to be tolerable after he has knocked about the world for fifteen years.’

      ‘And a military man?’

      ‘When he has had the same amount of service. The young of both species are horrible. You would have scores of them in your salon.’

      ‘I would not!’ said Mrs. Hauksbee fiercely.

      ‘I would tell the bearer to darwaza band them. I’d put their own colonels and commissioners at the door to turn them away. I’d give them to the Topsham Girl to play with.’

      ‘The Topsham Girl would be grateful for the gift. But to go back to the salon. Allowing that you had gathered all your men and women together, what would you do with them? Make them talk? They would all with one accord begin to flirt. Your salon would become a glorified Peliti’s a Scandal Point by lamplight.’

      ‘There’s a certain amount of wisdom in that view.’

      ‘There’s all the wisdom in the world in it. Surely, twelve Simla seasons ought to have taught you that you can’t focus anything in India; and a salon, to be any good at all, must be permanent. In two seasons your roomful would be scattered all over Asia. We are only little bits of dirt on the hillsides here one day and blown down the road the next. We have lost the art of talking at least our men have.

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