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LETTERS OF MARQUE

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Page 223—"They motioned silently that none must passimmediately before the seat of the King."

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LETTERS
OF MARQUE

By RUDYARD KIPLING


ILLUSTRATED BY
CHARLES   D.   FARRAND

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R. F. FENNO & COMPANY: PUB-
LISHERS:9 & 11 E. SIXTEENTH
STREET: NEW YORK CITY: 1899

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Copyright, 1899
BY
R. F. FENNO & COMPANY

Letters of Marque.
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LETTERS OF MARQUE

I.

Of the beginning of Things—Of the Taj and the Globe-Trotter—TheYoung Man from Manchester and certain Moral Reflections.

EXCEPT for those who, under compulsion of a sick certificate, are flyingBombaywards, it is good for every man to see some little of the greatIndian Empire and the strange folk who move about it. It is good toescape for a time from the House of Rimmon—be it office orcutchery—and to go abroad under no more exacting master than personalinclination, and with no more definite plan of travel than has thehorse, escaped from pasture, free upon the country side. The firstresult of such freedom is extreme bewilderment, and the second reducesthe freed to a state of mind which, for his sins, must be the normalportion of the Globe-Trotter—the man who “does” kingdoms in days andwrites books upon them in weeks. And this desperate facility is not asstrange as it seems. By the{8} time that an Englishman has come by sea andrail via America, Japan, Singapore, and Ceylon to Indi

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