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The Englishman who "sympathises" with Ireland is lost. But the more general attitude differs widely from this. Confronting us with a bluff and not unkindly demeanour, worthy of the nation that invented cold baths as a tonic against all spiritual anguish, the practical, modern Englishman speaks out his mind in straight-flung words and few. "You fellows," he says, "brood too much over the past.
For the 'silent East' is never happier than when it is talking at immense length; denouncing, inaugurating, promoting; and a prolonged dose of it stirred in Roy a positive craving for men who shot remarks at each other in 'straight-flung words and true. But no stone must be left unturned. So he went; guided by the friendly policeman, who knew him for a Sahib bent on some personal quest.
They are soldiers, administrators, and Government officials, men whose lives are passed on the outposts of civilisation, and who carry the British ideals of cleanliness, honesty, and straight-dealing far into the desert; but they do not talk about it, as Kipling says they speak: "After the use of the English in straight-flung words and few "
She closed the book, and was soon dreaming awake; and the twilight world was the globe in which the dream-fishes came and went now swelling up strange and near, now sinking away into the curious distance. Her mood was broken by the sound of hoofs, which she almost immediately recognized as those of the doctor's red horse great hoofs falling at the end of long straight-flung steps.
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