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The Riddle of the Sands

by 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 23rd September 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.

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    September 15, 2005

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      • ISBN: 9781412159593

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      • ISBN: 9781412159593
      • File size: 628 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Levels

    • Lexile® Measure: 1100
    • Text Difficulty: 7-9

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  • English

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  • Lexile® Measure:1100
  • Text Difficulty:7-9

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