A Farewell to India | The Veranda by Edward John Thompson

Author:Edward John Thompson [Thompson, Edward John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

In a moment, Alden had leapt from gloom to hilarity.

“‘Oh, dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon!’”

he cried. “When all these years they’ve had our College and our community here, a bright beacon in a naughty world! At the Last Day they won’t even get into the really big sessions! They’ll be dismissed in the lower courts; Gabriel or Michael—or even some lesser angel; maybe, as a Saint, I shall have the handling of them myself—will settle their case summarily. “You had Jacks Saheb, and Alden Saheb, and Douglas Saheb,” he will say. “Yet you preferred to keep on with your fooleries, and to die in your sins!” He drew himself up to his height; he was an Archangel dismissing a wretched mob. His arms were tossed out to their fullest width. “Go to Hell, you silly devils!” he shouted. The words opened a flood-gate for something that was straining for expression, and he repeated, with louder emphasis, “Go to Hell!” Then he collapsed in a laugh that confirmed his colleague’s fears that his mind, never very stable, was giving way.

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