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CHAPTER I - THE TALE OF THE PEACOCK TREES
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CHAPTER I - THE TALE OF THE PEACOCK TREES
Squire Vane was an elderly schoolboy of English education and
Irish extraction. His English education, at one of the great
public schools, had preserved his intellect perfectly and
permanently at the stage of boyhood. But his Irish extraction
subconsciously upset in him the proper solemnity of an old boy,
and sometimes gave him back the brighter outlook of a naughty boy.
He had a bodily impatience which played tricks upon him
almost against his will, and had already rendered him rather
too radiant a failure in civil and diplomatic service.
Thus it is true that compromise is the key of British policy,
especially as effecting an impartiality among the religions of India;
but Vane‘s attempt to meet the Moslem halfway by kicking off
one boot at the gates of the mosque, was felt not so much to
indicate true impartiality as something that could only be called
an aggressive indi
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