Stories of the East

Many people did not like Jessop. He had rather a brutal manner sometimes of telling brutal things--the truth, he called it. "They don't like it," he once said to me in a rare mo...

It sounds unreal, perhaps a nightmare, all this told here to you behind blinds and windows in this--"he sniffed--" in this smell of--of--horsehair furniture and paint and varnis...

We got our drinks and as, rather forgetting that I was in England, I murmured the Eastern formula, I noticed vaguely one of the other three glance at me over his shoulder for a...

Chellaya, being a small fat man and of a more pleasant and therefore more sensitive nature, felt his sin and the disapproval of his friends deeply. For some days he gave up his...