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Updated: September 23, 2025
Following one of the serpentine walks, the governess was approaching the house, when her attention was attracted by the gleaming surface of a tomb, and she turned towards the pyramidal deodars that were swaying slowly in the breeze, "Warming their heads in the sun, Checkering the grass with their shade," and photographing fringy images on the shining marble.
Nature was reviving; and among the evergreen foliage of the coniferae which formed the border of the wood, already appeared the young leaves of the banksias, deodars, and other trees. It may be remembered that Gideon Spilett and Herbert had, at different times, taken photographic views of Lincoln Island.
The Finest Story in the World, Rudyard Kipling. Under the Deodars, Rudyard Kipling. An Habitation Enforced, Rudyard Kipling. Plain Tales from the Hills, Rudyard Kipling. The Light that Failed, Rudyard Kipling. Wee Willie Winkie, Rudyard Kipling. Baa Baa Black Sheep, Rudyard Kipling. Captains Courageous, Rudyard Kipling. They, Rudyard Kipling. The Brushwood Boy, Rudyard Kipling.
I suppose people think of that place, if they ever do think of it, as an agreeable retreat in the wilds of the Himalayas where deodars and scandals grow, and where the Viceroy if he likes may take off his decorations and go about in flannels. I know how useless it would be to try to give a more faithful impression, and I will hold back from the attempt as far as I can.
My father was not at all nervous about allowing me to wander about freely even here. Some way below our house there stretched a spur thickly wooded with Deodars. Into this wilderness I would venture alone with my iron-spiked staff. These lordly forest trees, with their huge shadows, towering there like so many giants what immense lives had they lived through the centuries!
In the middle distance, rising above the level yellow of the plain, still dim and shadowy below the morning light, rolled wave upon wave of the blue hills which hold in their embrace the fruitful Lolab. At our feet the deodars, still dark with the shadow of night, crept up the dewy slope upon whose top we stood. Then suddenly "The sanguine sunrise, with his meteor eyes,"
By way of response he stretched himself full length, a little below her, resting on his elbow in such a position as afforded him a clear view of her profile, that gleamed, like a cameo against a background of deodars. "Smoke," she said softly. "No. I think not." His tone had a touch of constraint, and a lone silence fell.
Pines, ilex, and deodars clung miraculously to a hillside of massive rock, that jutted above him at intervals threatening, immense; and often, on the khud side, dropped abruptly into nothingness. When the road curved outward, splashes of sunlight patterned it; and intermittent gaps revealed the flash of snow-peaks, incredibly serene and far.
You pass through big, still deodar-forests, and under big, still cliffs, and over big, still grass-downs swelling like a woman's breasts; and the wind across the grass, and the rain among the deodars says "Hush hush hush." So little Dumoise was packed off to Chini, to wear down his grief with a full-plate camera and a rifle.
But we shall meet again in the way and time that will be best and with knowledge so enlarged that what we have seen already will be like an empty dream compared to daylight truth. If you knew what waits for you you would not delay one moment." She stood radiant beneath the deodars, a figure of Hope, pointing steadily to the heights. I knew her words were true though as yet I could not tell how.
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