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Kidnapped Kipling, Rudyard
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1888
KIDNAPPED

by Rudyard Kipling










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KIDNAPPED
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There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which, taken any way you please, is bad,
And strands them in forsaken guts and creeks
No decent soul would think of visiting.
You cannot stop the tide; but, now and then,
You may arrest some rash adventurer
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Who- h'm- will hardly thank you for your pains.
-Vibart's Moralities.
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WE are a high-caste and enlightened race, and infant-marriage is
very shocking and the consequences are sometimes peculiar; but,
nevertheless, the Hindu notion- which is the Continental notion, which
is the aboriginal notion- of arranging marriages irrespective of the
personal inclinations of the married, is sound. Think for a minute,
and you will see that it must be so; unless, of course, you believe in
'affinities.' In which case you had better not read this tale. How can
a man who has never married; who cannot be trusted to pick up at sight
a moderately sound horse; whose head is hot and upset with visions
of domestic felicity, go about the choosing of a wife? He cannot see
straight or think straight if he tries; and the same disadvantages
exist in the case of a girl's fancies. But when mature, married, and
discreet people arrange a match between a boy and a girl, they do it
sensibly, with a view to the future, and the young couple live happily
ever afterwards. As everybody knows.