发表于2024-11-24
Reader's Digest Best Loved Books for Young Readers: Beau Geste 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
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C~A~ER I: or TgE STraNGE EVENTS Ar zi~Dz~Nr~:r<br >First told by Major Henri de Beaujolais of the Spahis to George Lawrence,<br > Esq., C.M.G., of the Nigeria,* Civil Service.<br >MR, GEORGE LAWRFAqCE, C.M.G., First Class District Officer of<br >His Majesty s Civil Service, sat at the door of his tent and viewed<br >the African desert scene with the eye of extreme disfavor. There<br >:,~isbeauty neither in the landscape nor in the eye of the beholder.<br > Re landscape consisted of sand, bur grass and yellow tafi~sa<br > underbrush, and ~he eye was jaundiced by sun, dust, malaria, and<br > continuous marching in appaUmg heat.<br > The fact that only a few more hours of travel through deserts<br > and swamps lay between him and the railhead at Kano, between<br > him and "leave out of Africa," was all that kept George Lawrence<br > on his feet. From that romantic Red Cit3 , Kano, the train would<br > take him, after a three days journey, to the rubbish heap called<br > Lauos, on the West African Coast. There he would embark on the<br > good ship Appam and sink into a deck chair with that glorious<br > sighof relief known in perfection only to those weary ones who turn<br > their backs upon the Outposts and set their faces toward Home.<br > Meantime, for George Lawrence---worry, frustration, heat, sand<br > flies, mosquitoes fever and that great depression which comes<br >~ of monotony in~iescribable weariness unutterable and loneliness<br > unspeakable.<br > ~d the greatest of these is loneliness.<br >
Reader's Digest Best Loved Books for Young Readers: Beau Geste 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书