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GEORGE ORWELL Burmese Days This desert inaccessible Under the shade of melancholy boughs. As You Like It with an Introduction by Emma Larkin and A Note on the Text by Peter Davison PENGUIN BOOKS
Page 4 and 5: Contents INTRODUCTION TO BURMESE DA
Page 6 and 7: PENGUIN MODERN CLASSICS BURMESE DAY
Page 8 and 9: Introduction to Burmese Days In Kat
Page 10 and 11: location in Upper Burma were remove
Page 12 and 13: fevered mind was an idea for anothe
Page 14 and 15: gave instructions that the American
Page 16 and 17: was one of Po Kyin’s qualities th
Page 18 and 19: There was a column of similar stuff
Page 20 and 21: anonymous letters. That is all for
Page 22 and 23: II At about the time when U Po Kyin
Page 24 and 25: ‘Yes. Dear old Punch, Pink’un a
Page 26 and 27: was one of those people who constan
Page 28 and 29: ought to speak to the padre about t
Page 30 and 31: hours. ‘I gather,’ he said, ‘
Page 32 and 33: ‘Oh, he’s not a bad chap,’ We
Page 34 and 35: III Flory turned to the left outsid
Page 36 and 37: urden humbug. The pukka sahib pose.
Page 38 and 39: famines, they build schools, they s
Page 40 and 41: The doctor took a step or two up an
Page 42 and 43: IV Flory lay asleep, naked except f
Page 44 and 45: ‘At least touch me with your lips
Page 46 and 47: visible except some ragged brown cr
Page 48 and 49: headman, a weazened, leaf-brown old
Page 50 and 51: sandy face quite pink with rage, br
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was hardly a pause in the rain. The
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life, not against it. It would be b
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VI The morning sunlight slanted up
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path, nervous of Flo, and Ba Pe cam
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The girl turned an agonised face to
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‘Oh, I simply adore gardening,’
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longyi. Flory thought he had never
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Perhaps it is in order to teach thi
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to right: Miss Barbara Pilbrick, Si
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‘I suppose you are our niece Eliz
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VIII That evening Flory told Ko S
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‘Kindly to sit down, madam! I am
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She began at once to pick her way t
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He went through a pantomime of exam
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‘Ah well. Let’s hope they’ll
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X But as a matter of fact, Ko S’l
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‘Aren’t they too simply dreadfu
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to remind you that they’ve got Eu
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XI Flory and Elizabeth walked down
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made cotton shirts and almost incre
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ease. Her elegance and her foreign
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XII In the sticky, sleepy heat of t
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‘So you see,’ said U Po Kyin wi
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‘You know, Kin Kin, there is anot
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XIII As Flory came through the gate
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happened if I’d refused. There’
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like the liquid eyes of a dog. ‘A
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He could not look at her; he stood
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XIV Like long curved needles thread
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‘How soon can we start out? Do yo
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excitement. For a moment she could
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aised her gun and fired. It was one
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the ground with its foot. At the sa
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XV When Flory arrived at the Club h
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of her? He disengaged himself and p
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‘Nga Yin is shaking himself! Nga
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XVI The vultures in the big pyinkad
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A sepoy brought the pony, and Flory
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XVII Flory did not see Elizabeth ag
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‘It’s only this. Whatever I’v
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He made his way slowly through the
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XVIII After the row overnight Ellis
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Policemen he looked on as no better
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nowhere in the stifling hot-weather
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As Mr Macgregor entered the Club ga
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XIX The heat was growing worse and
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himself, watching some tiny, namele
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ightness that a woman puts on when
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tumbler two-thirds full, added enou
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The rebels’ entire stock of weapo
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‘About the beginning of June, up
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‘What I mean is, Macgregor’ll h
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Flory stood up. He had got to say h
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XXII Maxwell’s death had caused a
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After breakfast, Ellis was walking
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Mrs Lackersteen, who was in dread o
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was a series of crashes as the wind
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policemen wedged helplessly among t
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‘Well, well, sir, it is enough th
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of Mr Maxwell’s death, hiss joy w
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met casually at obscure Indian stat
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would be a week at least before he
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The stationmaster waved his topi ap
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Elizabeth when she arrived. Mattu,
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It seemed very silent in the church
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finger. I wouldn’t mind even that
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elly, whining, her head down as tho
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XXV It was lucky that the padre sho
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‘To U Po Kyin, Deputy Assistant C
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