The Man Who Would Be King - Rudyard Kipling - Books - - 9798675990030 - October 2, 2020
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Rudyard Kipling
The Man Who Would Be King

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Book Excerpt: ...boiling water would fall on the dust with the flop of a frog, but all our weary world knew that was only pretence. It was a shade cooler in the press-room than the office, so I sat there, while the type ticked and clicked, and the night-jars hooted at the windows, and the all but naked compositors wiped the sweat from their foreheads and called for water. The thing that was keeping us back, whatever it was, would not come off, though the loo dropped and the last type was set, and the whole round earth stood still in the choking heat, with its finger on its lip, to wait the event. I drowsed, and wondered whether the telegraph was a blessing, and whether this dying man, or struggling people, was aware of the inconvenience the delay was causing. There was no special reason beyond the heat and worry to make tension, but, as the clock-hands crept up to three o'clock and the machines spun their fly-wheels two and three times to see that all was in order, before I said the word that would set them off, I coulClose...

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released October 2, 2020
ISBN13 9798675990030
Pages 34
Dimensions 152 × 229 × 2 mm   ·   63 g
Language English  

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