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Pluffles was a subaltern in the "Unmentionables." He was callow, even for a subaltern. He was callow all over--like a canary that had not finished fledging itself. The worst of it was he had three times as much money as was good for him; Pluffles' Papa being a rich man and Pluffles being the only son. Pluffles' Mamma adored him. She was only a little less callow than Pluffles and she believed everything he said. Love: 'A Miss'—Not Reprinted ( ) 6 plain 2016-08-13T00:03:15-04:00 1886-11-26 Short Story Gender Confusion, Lesbianism Rudyard Kipling In Error (Rudyard Kipling) 2 plain 2016-07-01T15:41:32-04:00 1887-01-24 Short Story Self-Delusion, Alcoholism Rudyard Kipling
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The Puffles Dragon's description mentions that it has extremely tough, leathery skin, similar to that of the domestic yak. Wressley of the Foreign Office (Rudyard Kipling) 1 plain 2016-07-02T19:11:39-04:00 1887-05-20 Short Story Rudyard Kipling Consequences (Rudyard Kipling, 1887) 4 Short Story by Rudyard Kipling (Plain Tales from the Hills, 1887) plain 2018-08-21T10:28:44-04:00 1886-12-09 Short Story Mrs. Hauksbee, Fate, Chance Rudyard Kipling The Conversion of Aurelian McGoggin (Rudyard Kipling) 4 Story by Rudyard Kipling plain 2016-07-01T15:30:36-04:00 1887-04-28 Short Story Philosophy, Atheism, Nervous Breakdown Rudyard Kipling Mrs. Hauksbee and she hated each other fervently. They hated far too much to clash; but the things they said of each other were startling—not to say original. Mrs. Hauksbee was honest—honest as her own frontteeth—and, but for her love of mischief, would have been a woman’s woman. There was no honesty about Mrs. Reiver; nothing but selfishness. And at the beginning of the season poor little Pluffles fell a prey to her. She laid herself out to that end, and who was Pluffles to resist? He trusted to his judgment, and he got judged.
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Pluffles enjoyed many talks with Mrs. Hauksbee during the next few days. They were all to the same end, and they helped Pluffles in the path of Virtue. Designed to Dry All Vehicle Surfaces Faster, More Thoroughly and More Gently than Conventional Towels Hers was a perfect little homily—much better than any clergyman could have given—and it ended with touching allusions to Pluffles’ Mamma and Papa, and the wisdom of taking his bride Home. On the Strength of a Likeness (Rudyard Kipling) 2 Short Story by Rudyard Kipling (Plain Tales from the Hills, 1886-7) plain 2018-08-21T12:04:55-04:00 1887-01-10 Short Story Rudyard Kipling Haunted Subalterns—Outward Bound Edition (Rudyard Kipling) 1 plain 2016-07-24T13:51:04-04:00 1887-05-27 Short Story Rudyard Kipling
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A Straight Flush (Rudyard Kipling, 1886) 10 Short Story by Rudyard Kipling (Civil & Military Gazette, 1886) plain 2018-08-20T17:52:20-04:00 1886-12-01 Short Story Gambling, Marriage Rudyard Kipling A Bank Fraud (Rudyard Kipling) 1 plain 2016-07-01T15:44:50-04:00 1887-04-14 Short Story Rudyard Kipling In the Pride of His Youth (Rudyard Kipling) 2 plain 2016-07-01T16:03:06-04:00 1887-05-15 Short Story Divorce, Long Distance Romance Rudyard Kipling False Dawn—Added 1888 Edition (Rudyard Kipling) 4 plain 2016-07-24T14:20:43-04:00 1888 Short Story Marriage, Mistaken Identity Rudyard KiplingWhat Pluffles had intended to do in the matter of the engagement only Mrs. Reiver knew, and she kept her own counsel to her death. She would have liked it spoiled as a compliment, I fancy. There was never any scandal--she had not generous impulses enough for that. She was the exception which proved the rule that Anglo- Indian ladies are in every way as nice as their sisters at Home. She spent her life in proving that rule. This BBC series was based on the anecdotes of Rudyard Kipling which he wrote for the daily Civil and Military Gazette in Lahore during the 1880s. Pluffles' weakness was not believing what people said. He preferred what he called "trusting to his own judgment." He had as much judgment as he had seat or hands; and this preference tumbled him into trouble once or twice. But the biggest trouble Pluffles ever manufactured came about at Simla—some years ago, when he was four-and-twenty. MRS. HAUKSBEE was sometimes nice to her own sex. Here is a story to prove this; and you can believe just as much as ever you please.
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At the beginning of August, Mrs. Hauksbee discovered that it was time to interfere. A man who rides much knows exactly what a horse is going to do next before he does it. In the same way, a woman of Mrs. Hauksbee's experience knows accurately how a boy will behave under certain circumstances--notably when he is infatuated with one of Mrs. Reiver's stamp. She said that, sooner or later, little Pluffles would break off that engagement for nothing at all--simply to gratify Mrs. Reiver, who, in return, would keep him at her feet and in her service just so long as she found it worth her while. She said she knew the signs of these things. If she did not, no one else could. At a moderate estimate there were about three and twenty sides to that lady's character. Some men say more. She began to talk to Pluffles after the manner of a mother, and as if there had been three hundred years, instead of fifteen, between them. She spoke with a sort of throaty quaver in her voice which had a soothing effect, though what she said was anything but soothing. She pointed out the exceeding folly, not to say meanness, of Pluffles' conduct, and the smallness of his views. Then he stammered something about "trusting to his own judgment as a man of the world;" and this paved the way for what she wanted to say next. It would have withered up Pluffles had it come from any other woman; but in the soft cooing style in which Mrs. Hauksbee put it, it only made him feel limp and repentant--as if he had been in some superior kind of church. Little by little, very softly and pleasantly, she began taking the conceit out of Pluffles, as you take the ribs out of an umbrella before re-covering it. She told him what she thought of him and his judgment and his knowledge of the world; and how his performances had made him ridiculous to other people; and how it was his intention make love to herself if she gave him the chance. Then she said that marriage would be the making of him; and drew a pretty little picture--all rose and opal-- of the Mrs. Pluffles of the future going through life relying on the "judgment" and "knowledge of the world" of a husband who had nothing to reproach himself with. How she reconciled these two statements she alone knew. But they did not strike Pluffles as conflicting. The story was published in the Civil and Military Gazette on November 20th 1886, in the first Indian edition of Plain Tales from the Hills in 1888, and in subsequent editions of that collection. See David Alan Pig (Rudyard Kipling) 1 plain 2016-07-02T17:52:11-04:00 1887-06-03 Short Story Revenge, Civil Servants Rudyard KiplingTip: To get the most out of your Platinum Pluffle 16 x 23 Hybrid Weave Microfiber Towel, follow our microfiber care instructions . The Bisara of Pooree (Rudyard Kipling) 2 plain 2016-07-02T19:43:38-04:00 1887-03-04 Short Story Supernatural, Magic Rudyard Kipling Pluffles enjoyed many talks with Mrs.Hauksbee during the next few days. They were all to the same end, and they helped Pluffles in the path of Virtue. Pluffles, a callow young subaltern, has fallen for the charms of a fascinating and predatory Older Woman, Mrs Reiver, of whom there is ‘nothing good except it was her dress’. Mrs Hauksbee, who loathes Mrs Reiver, and knows that Pluffles is engaged to a girl in England, decides to rescue him. She wins his heart, talks to him like a mother, and sees him safely off Home to be married. This is the second story about Mrs Hauksbee, and shows her in a rather better light than “Three – and an Extra”.
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