You perceive, do you not, that our national fairy tales reflect the inmost desires of the Briton and the Gaul?

And that is called paying the Dane-geld; but we've proved it again and again, that if once you have paid him the Dane-geld you never get rid of the Dane.

The motto of all the mongoose family is, "Run and find out," and Rikki-tikki was a true mongoose.

Yet there be certain times in a young man’s life, when, through great sorrow or sin, all the boy in him is burnt and seared away so that he passes at one step to the more sorrowful state of manhood

He became an officer and a gentleman, which is an enviable thing.

It thrilled through him when he first felt the keel answer to his hand on the spokes and slide over the long hollows as the foresail scythed back and forth against the blue sky.

Now India is a place beyond all others where one must not take things too seriously—the midday sun always excepted.