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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER XXVI. FRIENDS IN COUNCIL. Lal Roy soon became a fixture, next, a prominent feature in our establishment. He was a model, a unique sort of a servant?the luckiest compromise between a machine and a rational animal. Quick and handy by nature, clean and obedient by training, honest, I verily believe, on principle, he had his little fault?a kind of colour-blindness to the difference between truth and lying?which I must hope to amend before Monty was old enough to take the corruption. There, sturdy Jack was fortunately incorruptible. For the rest Lal Roy was an angel in the house. Scoff at the inferiority of the dark races, and their being fit only for servitude Better be fit for servitude than for nothing at all, like many of us whites. Our landlady'sniece, Olive, played false notes on the piano, worked yellow flowers on a green ground, and spent hours embroidering her evening shoes, and nobody missed her very much when she was from home; but when Lal Roy was laid up for two days with influenza the whole house groaned, and was thrown off its hinges. It takes but a short while to settle down in a hermitage?a bare retreat like mine. Just a day and a night nursery, sketchily furnished. Jack, once reminded that Robinson Crusoe had neither carpets nor curtains in his desert island, and that this was to be our desert island till a ship came and took us away, was quite satisfied with his quarters, and in no hurry for the ship. With Lai Roy for our man Friday the analogy was complete. What a joy, too, to have the run with Monty of the entire sitting-room for a playground, strewn with toys and toy wreckage?just a corner in the window allowed for my work table and myself; and between, on the common land next the fire-place, our one objet de luxe, a large leathern armchair, ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217467520 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217467520 |
| Weight | 0.42 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.29 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 122 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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