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The ested prsoom budding ea ‘aking cag of he locks the ey sone Sane ae the long tem conve the ested bukosts oft oe ho had been fogeed with bumboor al thee Bese oe wih a itbl ene of git bay 0 get nthing into perspective. Twas yee aoa tucated sod I had had wo ink out my poles is Shooting ans. phant 19 ter silence thats imposed 0. -sery Fagan inthe Eas. I did not even know tthe British Enpite is ying, sll ss did T know the. ic is great deal better than the younger empires tha: se going to supplant ite AIL knew was that twas st... between my bated of fhe empire T served and ro rag agaist the vie spied litle beasts who tied make my ob impose ble, With one part of my miss i theught of the British Raj as an unbreakable fyrana, as something clamped ‘down, in soeculasaeeulorum, 200 te wil of prostate ‘peoples; with another part I oueHt that the! greatest Joy in the world would be 1. sive a bayonet into a ‘Boddhist priest's guts. 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