Thrown Away (Rudyard Kipling) 4 plain 2016-07-01T15:01:10-04:00 1888 Short Story Subaltern, Isolation, Suicide, Cholera Rudyard Kipling

The Rescue Of Pluffles - Short Stories and Classic Literature The Rescue Of Pluffles - Short Stories and Classic Literature

Then she sent Pluffles out for a walk, to think over what she had said. Pluffles left, blowing his nose very hard and holding himself very straight. Mrs. Hauksbee laughed.

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This particular engagement lasted seven weeks—we called it the Seven Weeks' War—and was fought out inch by inch on both sides. A detailed account would fill a book, and would be incomplete then. Any one who knows about these things can fit in the details for himself. It was a superb fight—there will never be ​another like it as long as Jakko stands—and Pluffles was the prize of victory. People said shameful things about Mrs.Hauksbee. They did not know what she was playing for. Mrs.Reiver fought partly because Pluffles was useful to her, but mainly because she hated Mrs.Hauksbee and the matter was a trial of strength between them. No one knows what Pluffles thought. He had not many ideas at the best of times, and the few he possessed made him conceited. Mrs.Hauksbee said:—"The boy must be caught; and the only way of catching him is by treating him well." a little, brown, thin, almost skinny, woman, with big, rolling, violet-blue eyes, and the sweetest manners in the world. You had only to mention her name at afternoon teas for every woman in the room to rise up and call her not blessed. She was clever, witty, brilliant, and sparkling beyond most of her kind; but possessed of many devils of malice and mischievousness. She could be nice, though, even to her own sex.’ ( Plain Tales, p. 10 l.3)

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The Broken-Link Handicap (Rudyard Kipling) 2 plain 2016-07-01T15:34:56-04:00 1887-04-06 Short Story Horseracing, Fate Rudyard Kipling Hers was a perfect little homily—much better than any clergyman could have given—and it ended with touching allusions to Pluffle' Mamma and Papa, and the wisdom of taking his bride Home. What linked the stories and made them anything but ‘plain’ was their highly distinctive voice – the same insouciant (careless, indifferent) voice that Rud had first tried out in “In the House of Suddhoo” (later in this volume) Sometimes located in the figure of an unnamed narrator, this voice (whether asserting or teasing) always demanded attention. The openings were always arresting and characteristic. The Medium Nap Allows You to Use Confidently with all Quality Detailing Sprays, Waxes, and PolishesMRS. HAUKSBEE was sometimes nice to her own sex. Here is a story to prove this; and you can believe just as much as ever you please.