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But, sure enough, a few years after the soldiers thought, and talked, and expressed themselves exactly as Rudyard Kipling had taught them in his stories. Rudyard Kipling made the modern soldier. Other writers have gone on with the good work, and they have between them manufactured the cheery, devil-may-care, lovable person enshrined in our hearts as Thomas Atkins.
Rudyard Byng was his friend, whose bread he had eaten, whom he had known since they were boys at school. He remembered acutely Rudyard's words to him that fateful night when he had dined with Jasmine alone "You will have much to talk about, to say to each other, such old friends as you are."
Far above him a faint breeze stirred the greenery, and the white petals of some unknown flower came floating down through the gloom. Poetry and Belles Lettres BALLADS. By RUDYARD KIPLING. Crown 8vo. Buckram. 6s. Also 200 copies on hand-made paper. 21s. Also 35 copies on Japanese vellum. 42s.
To him we owe the realisation of the fact that while modern barbarians of genius like Mr. Henley, and in his weaker moments Mr. Rudyard Kipling, delight in describing the coarseness and crude cynicism and fierce humour of the unlettered classes, the unlettered classes are in reality highly sentimental and religious, and not in the least like the creations of Mr. Henley and Mr. Kipling.
Late in April, they sailed for Gibraltar on their way to Madrid, where Richard was to report the coronation ceremonies, and from Madrid they went to Paris and then to London to see the coronation of King Edward. It was while on a visit to the Rudyard Kiplings that they heard the news that Edward had been suddenly stricken with a serious illness and that the ceremony had been postponed. 11, St.
Rudyard Kipling, in his earlier stories, employed a method of opening which is worthy of careful critical consideration. In "Plain Tales from the Hills" and the several volumes that followed it within the next few years, his habit was to begin with an expository essay, filling the space of a paragraph or two, in which he stated the theme of the story he was about to tell.
"The world would call it the New Goodness then," she replied in a voice which told how deep was the well of misery in her being. "It is as old as Allah," he replied. "Or as old as Cain?" she responded, then added quickly, "Hush! He is coming." An instant afterwards she was outside among the peach trees, and Rudyard and Stafford faced each other in the room she had just left.
At eleven o'clock to the minute Ian Stafford entered Byng's mansion and was being taken to Jasmine's sitting-room, when Rudyard appeared on the staircase, and with a peremptory gesture waved the servant away. Ian was suddenly conscious of a terrible change in Rudyard's appearance.
Mappin, the celebrated surgeon, looked round the little group of which he was the centre at Glencader, Rudyard Byng's castle in Wales.
He was so occupied with his thoughts that he was not at first conscious that some one was knocking. "Come in," he called out at last. The door opened and Rudyard Byng entered. "I am going to South Africa, Stafford," he said, heavily. "I hear that you are going, too; and I have come to see whether we cannot go out together." "A message from Mr.
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