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Updated: May 11, 2025
He lit a cigar, took down a copy of Matthew Arnold's poems, opening at "Sohrab and Rustum," read it with a quick-beating heart, and then came to "Tristram and Iseult." In Tennyson, he had got no further than "Locksley Hall," which, he said, had a right tune and wrong words; and "Maud," which "was big in pathos." The story and the metre of "Tristram and Iseult" beat in his veins.
For attaching quality on something like a large scale I should put this part of Tristram and Iseult much above both Sohrab and Rustum and Balder Dead; but the earlier parts are not worthy of it, and the whole, like Empedocles, is something of a failure, though both poems afford ample consolation in passages.
The thumping was continuous, not unlike the noise good stevedores make when loading against time. "To burn the castle!" At that moment Rustum Khan left the table, and seeing me sitting up strode over. "Good-by, sahib!" he said, reaching out for my hand. "The lord sahib has given me a post of honor and I go to hold it. Those who survive this night shall have brave memories!"
And in that moment I recalled what Rustum Khan had once said about her being no true gipsy. "Go on," I urged her. "Peter Measel is an expert. He's a high priest. He knows it all." "Peter Measel is saying, God is ver' angry with Zeitoon and is sending to destroy such bloody people what plan fighting and rebellion." "I'll think it over," I said, moving to get up.
That, and no other motive, made them tolerate the hectoring of Rustum Khan, who had constituted himself officer of transport, and brought up the rear on his superb bay mare.
"Should I have them vote on it?" "They would elect you," he answered. "I've got to be free to look for Miss Gloria. She's kidnapped disappeared utterly!" Rustum Khan swore under his breath, using a language that I knew no word of. "A woman again, and more trouble!" he said at last grimly. "Let like cure like then! Choose a woman herdsman!" he grinned.
Our entry rather broke the spell, but Rustum Khan was not to be denied. "You used to tell in those days, Colonel sahib bahadur," he said, addressing Monty with that full-measured compliment that the chivalrous, old East still cherishes, "of a castle of your ancestors in these parts.
"I have lost seven and thirty splendid men, and three and forty horses. One more such charge, and " "No, Rustum Khan. Not again," Monty answered. "What else?" laughed the Rajput. "That castle divides our forces, making for weakness. If only " "We must turn it to advantage, then, Rustum Khan!" "Ah, sahib! So speaks a soldier! How then?"
And it is because men say that Americans are Mormons and polygamous, and very swift in the use of revolvers, that all follow instead of one or two!" * Gitana, gipsy young woman. Rom Gipsy husband, or family man. "Go down then, and make sure they don't murder him!" commanded Monty, and Rustum Khan turned to obey with rather ill grace.
The Turkish colonel, who had fought the ridiculously futile duel with me, was coming along at the mare's tail with his hands tied behind him and a noose about his neck made fast to one of the saddle-rings. "Much obliged, Rustum Khan!" I said by way of letting him know I was alive. "How did you get here?" "Ha, sahib! Not going to die, then? That is good!
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