neatly-soldered

Updated: June 3, 2025

'Cholera Leave stopped Officers recalled. Alas for the white gloves in the neatly-soldered boxes, the rides and the dances and picnics that were to be, the loves half spoken, and the debts unpaid! Without demur and without question, fast as tonga could fly or pony gallop, back to their Regiments and their Batteries, as though they were hastening to their weddings, fled the subalterns.

Rudyard Kipling - Under the Deodars