Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Editorial Practice
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- The Tragedy of Crusoe, C.S.
- Twenty Years After
- Dis Aliter Visum
- De Profundis
- The Unlimited “Draw” of “Tick” Boileau
- My Christmas Caller
- The History of a Crime
- Prisoners and Captives
- “From Olympus to Hades”
- “Les Miserables.”
- A Nightmare of Rule
- What Came of It
- An Official Secret
- Le Roi en Exil
- A Scrap of Paper
- The Mystification of Santa Claus
- “Love in Old Cloathes”
- The Case of Adamah
- A Tale of ’98
- A Rather More Fishy Case
- The House of Shadows
- The Confession of an Impostor
- The Judgment of Paris
- Five Days After Date
- The Hill of Illusion
- Le Monde ou L'On S'Amuse
- An Intercepted Letter
- The Recurring Smash
- How Liberty Came to the Bolan
- “Under Sentence”
- The Dreitarbund
- In Memoriam
- On Signatures
- The Great Strike
- “The Biggest Liar in Asia”
- Deputating a Viceroy
- A Merry Christmas
- The New Year's Sermon
- New Year's Gifts
- Mister Anthony Dawking
- “The Luck of Roaring Camp”
- The Wedding Guest
- The Tracking of Chuckerbutti
- “Bread upon the Waters”
- A Free Gift
- A Hill Homily
- The “Kingdom” of Bombay
- Bombaystes Furioso
- A Day Off
- The Unpunishable Cherub
- In Gilded Halls
- “Till the Day Break”
- The Fountain of Honour
- The Burden of Nineveh
- His Natural Destiny
- That District Log-Book
- An Unequal Match
- A Horrible Scandal
- An Exercise in Administration
- My New Purchase
- Exercises in Administration
- The Dignity of It.
- Exercises in Administration
- In Wonderland
- In the Year ’92
- “A Free Hand”
- Susannah and the Elder
- The Coming K
- What the World Said
- An Interesting Condition
- The Comet of a Season
- Gallihauk's Pup
- The Inauthorated Corpses
- One Lady at Wairakei
- The Princess in the Pickle-Bottle
- Why Snow Falls at Vernet
- The Cause of Humanity
- appendices
- Glossary
In Gilded Halls
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 November 2018
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Editorial Practice
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- The Tragedy of Crusoe, C.S.
- Twenty Years After
- Dis Aliter Visum
- De Profundis
- The Unlimited “Draw” of “Tick” Boileau
- My Christmas Caller
- The History of a Crime
- Prisoners and Captives
- “From Olympus to Hades”
- “Les Miserables.”
- A Nightmare of Rule
- What Came of It
- An Official Secret
- Le Roi en Exil
- A Scrap of Paper
- The Mystification of Santa Claus
- “Love in Old Cloathes”
- The Case of Adamah
- A Tale of ’98
- A Rather More Fishy Case
- The House of Shadows
- The Confession of an Impostor
- The Judgment of Paris
- Five Days After Date
- The Hill of Illusion
- Le Monde ou L'On S'Amuse
- An Intercepted Letter
- The Recurring Smash
- How Liberty Came to the Bolan
- “Under Sentence”
- The Dreitarbund
- In Memoriam
- On Signatures
- The Great Strike
- “The Biggest Liar in Asia”
- Deputating a Viceroy
- A Merry Christmas
- The New Year's Sermon
- New Year's Gifts
- Mister Anthony Dawking
- “The Luck of Roaring Camp”
- The Wedding Guest
- The Tracking of Chuckerbutti
- “Bread upon the Waters”
- A Free Gift
- A Hill Homily
- The “Kingdom” of Bombay
- Bombaystes Furioso
- A Day Off
- The Unpunishable Cherub
- In Gilded Halls
- “Till the Day Break”
- The Fountain of Honour
- The Burden of Nineveh
- His Natural Destiny
- That District Log-Book
- An Unequal Match
- A Horrible Scandal
- An Exercise in Administration
- My New Purchase
- Exercises in Administration
- The Dignity of It.
- Exercises in Administration
- In Wonderland
- In the Year ’92
- “A Free Hand”
- Susannah and the Elder
- The Coming K
- What the World Said
- An Interesting Condition
- The Comet of a Season
- Gallihauk's Pup
- The Inauthorated Corpses
- One Lady at Wairakei
- The Princess in the Pickle-Bottle
- Why Snow Falls at Vernet
- The Cause of Humanity
- appendices
- Glossary
Summary
Published: Civil and Military Gazette, 18 May 1888; Pioneer Mail, 27 May 1888
Attribution: In Scrapbook 4 (28/4, pp. 63–4).
Text: Civil and Military Gazette.
Notes: In May 1888, RK was back in Lahore, substituting for the absent editor of the CMG and living at the Punjab Club. Of this he wrote to his friend Mrs Edmonia Hill: ‘I have returned to the old, wearying, Godless futile life at a club – same men, same talk, same billiards – all connu and triply connu and, except for what I carry in my heart, I could almost swear that I had never been away’ ([9–11] May, 1888: Letters, i, 171).
‘In Gilded Halls’ was mistakenly identified in Livingston, Bibliography, as the story collected in The Story of the Gadsbys under the title of ‘The World Without’. The two stories are both dialogues set in ‘the Degchi Club’ but are not otherwise similar. The error was repeated in Chandler's Summary, in the Stewart-Yeats Bibliographical Catalogue and in Harbord.
Reprinted in ‘Turnovers’, ii, 1888; in the Martindell–Ballard pamphlets, and in Harbord, i, 299–302.
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree,
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man,
Down to a sunless sea.
ColeridgeScene: Smoking-Room in the Degchi Club, ten minutes before dinner; thermometer in ante-room marking 98 o. Picturesque arrangement of six deboshed men in the easiest chairs.
First Voice: Sherry bitters lao!
Second Voice: Khitmatgar! why the dickens isn't that punkah being kenched?
Third Voice: And what news have you of your people at the Hills? Mrs. Tomlinson quite well?
Second Voice (wearily): Yes. She's all right. I say, you're a married man, what do you think is a fair monthly average for quarters in “Purgatory”.
Fourth Voice: Yes, I took him twice round the jumps– the brute ran out to begin with, but he was all right after that. ‘Jove! I raised a thirst that I wouldn't ha’ sold for anything.
Fifth Voice: “Rejoice, O young man, in the days of thy youth, when the silver bowl is generally within arm's reach, and the clouds return not after the rain.”
First Voice: Bet you a chick that's wrong. The silver bowl doesn't come in at all.
Fifth Voice (lazily): Take your oath? Confine yourself to sherry and bitters.
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- The Cause of Humanity and Other StoriesThe Cause of Humanity and Other Stories Uncollected Prose Fictions, pp. 234 - 238Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2018