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From the Four Winds
The opening tale introduces a group of characters gathered on a tropical verandah, where they share their experiences and observations, particularly focused on a man named Synge who is departing from their company.
"From the Four Winds" by John Sinjohn is a collection of stories. The opening tale introduces a group of characters gathered on a tropical verandah, where they share their experiences and observations, particularly focused on a man named Synge who is departing from their company.
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‘You lucky beggars. Oh! You lucky beggars!’
The speaker rose, and stood stretching a languid length against the railing of the verandah, his tall figure outlined in its white clothes against the overhanging foliage.
‘Well, I don’t know,’ said Clemenson, ‘you fellows don’t seem to have such a bad time out here; only wish I were going to stay, instead of toddling back to the beautiful and salubrious climate of the British Isles which you seem to covet so much; what d’you say, Taplin?’
He waved the end of his cigarette, glowing in the dark, towards another recumbent figure.
‘Um—um,’ the second globe-trotter lay back, looking curiously at the face of the man standing, and offered no further reply.
‘I can’t stay up to see you off,’ said the first speaker—‘I should go cracked. “You can ’ear their paddles chunkin!”’—he broke into the air of ‘Mandalay,’ and shook his hand with an almost menacing gesture towards the lagoon.
Contents
- 01The Running Amok of Synge Sahib
- 02Dick Denver’s Idea
- 03Scene I
- 04Scene II
- 05Scene III
- 06An Afterthought
- 07Ashes
- 08‘Tally Ho’—Budmash
- 09The Doldrums
- 10The Capitulation of Jean Jacques
- 11The Spirit of the Karroo.
- 12A Prairie Oyster
- 13According to His Lights
- 14The Demi-Gods
- 15Prologue
- 16The Meditations of Pietro.
- 17Epilogue.
- 18Transcriber’s Notes
About this edition
- Author
- John Galsworthy
- Language
- English
- Era
- Modern (c. 1800–1945)
- Reading level
- Intermediate: some philosophy helps
- Formats
- EPUB, PDF
- Length
- 139 pages
- This edition
- Modern Philosophers
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