The Riddle of the Sands

Erskine Childers

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I HAVE read of men who, when forced by their calling to live for long periods in utter solitude-save for a few black faces-have made it a rule to dress regularly for dinner in order to maintain their self-respect and prevent a relapse into barbarism. It was in some such spirit, with an added touch of self-consciousness, that, at seven o'clock in the evening of September 23 in a recent year, I was making my evening toilet in my chambers in Pall Mall. I thought the date and the place justified the parallel; to my advantage even; for the obscure Burmese administrator might well be a man of blunted sensibilities and coarse fibre, and at least he is alone with nature, while I-well, a young man of condition and fashion, who knows the right people, belongs to the right clubs, has a safe, possibly a brilliant, future in the Foreign Office-may be excused for a sense of complacent martyrdom, when, with his keen appreciation of the social calendar, he is doomed to the outer solitude of London in September.

Book Details

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Publish Date: Oct 7th, 2017
Pages: 210
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 11.00in - 8.50in - 0.44in - 1.10lb
EAN: 9781978033603
Categories: • Classics• Thrillers - Espionage