The Red Year Louis Tracy

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Excerpt from The Red Year: A Story of the Indian Mutiny

On a day in January, 1857, a sepoy was sitting by a well in the cantonment of Dum-Dum, near Calcutta. Though he wore the uniform of John Company, and his rank was the lowest in the native army, he carried on his forehead the caste-marks of the Brahmin. In a word, he was more than noble, being of sacred birth, and the Hindu officers of his regiment, if they were not heaven-born Brahmins, would grovel before him in secret, though he must obey their slightest order on parade or in the field.

To him approached a Lascar.

"Brother," said the newcomer, "lend me your brass pot, so that I may drink, for I have walked far in the sun."

The sepoy started as though a snake had stung him. Lascars, the sailor-men of India, were notoriously free-and-easy in their manners. Yet how came it that even a low-caste mongrel of a Lascar should offer such an overt insult to a Brahmin!

"Do you not know, swine-begotten, that your hog's lips would contaminate my lotah?" asked he, putting the scorn of centuries into the words.

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Полное название книги Louis Tracy The Red Year
Автор Louis Tracy
Ключевые слова исторические романы
Категории Художественная литература, Книги на иностранных языках
ISBN 9781330127933
Издательство Книга по Требованию
Год 2015
Название транслитом the-red-year-louis-tracy
Название с ошибочной раскладкой the red year louis tracy