Allan Quatermain: (H Rider Haggard Classics Collection)

ISBN-13: 9781506153544 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 214 str.

H. Rider Haggard

Opis

'"Make your mind easy," said he; "I will." As the sequel shows, he did 'I went. I lived in barracks on black soup. I am a refined man and a poet by nature, and I suffered tortures from the coarse horror of my surroundings. There was a drill sergeant, and he had a cane. Ah, that cane, how it curled Alas, never can I forget it 'One morning came the news; my battalion was ordered to Tonquin. The drill sergeant and the other coarse monsters rejoiced. I-I made enquiries about Tonquin. They were not satisfactory. In Tonquin are savage Chinese who rip you open. My artistic tastes-for I am also an artist-recoiled from the idea of being ripped open. The great man makes up his mind quickly. I made up my mind. I determined not to be ripped open. I deserted.