Achmed Abdullah

Name: The Man on Horseback — Chapter 42
Author: Achmed Abdullah

The Man on Horseback — Chapter 42 (1903)

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“The Man on Horseback — Chapter 42”, published in 1903, is a work by Achmed Abdullah. It explores elements such as Tom, von Quitzow and driver.

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Achmed Abdullah, The Man on Horseback — Chapter 42 (1903)

“ And Tom thought it less terrible than pitiable. He found it in his big, simple heart to pity these people, top-heavy with worship of self and iron force, weak-kneed with meaningless, sugary sentimentality, rotten with false standards and bad beer.
Never in all his life had Tom loved his own land as during that drive. Faults? Of course America had faults. There was no nation this side of millennium free from them. A nation needs faults, like the shadows in a flame, to emphasize its brightness. ”

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Achmed Abdullah, The Man on Horseback — Chapter 42 (1903)

“ Tom did not know how excited he was, and it was this very ignorance of his own emotions which helped him to dovetail minutely each tiny detail of his plans, to switch promptly when circumstances necessitated it, from the moment the machine stopped in front of the barracks.
A dozen or so men in dingy, peaked sweaters were standing at the curb, looking up at the great building.
"Our turn to-morrow," said one rather hopelessly, with a malevolent glance at Tom's uniform; and a woman of the streets, blowzy, enormous, vulgar, spat. A policeman ordered her brutally on her way. ”

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Achmed Abdullah, The Man on Horseback — Chapter 42 (1903)

“ Tom had taken a taxicab back to barracks, and his driver tooted his horn continuously. At sight of the beloved uniform, the shining uhlanka, the silver gray cape, the crowd would give way, often with cheers and hurrahs. ”

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Achmed Abdullah, The Man on Horseback — Chapter 42 (1903)

“ But the faults of America were those of youth, added to those of an ancient, badly digested, Mayflower Puritanism, faults at times sharpened and brought into clashing contrast by the continuous immigration and assimilation of tens of thousands of foreigners. ”

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Achmed Abdullah, The Man on Horseback — Chapter 42 (1903)

“ But, too, he noticed that many others, perfectly sober from an alcoholic view-point, people who, to judge from their sunken eyes, their drawn lips, had hardly partaken of food in the gigantic excitement that had swirled through the German capital like fog in the brain of a blind world, behaved even more extravagantly than the beer-soaked hooligans from the North-side slums. ”

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Achmed Abdullah, The Man on Horseback — Chapter 42 (1903)

“ For once, being potential heroes, looked up to by all classes, even the grumbling Liberals and the discontented Radicals, as defenders of the Fatherland and conquerors of Belgium, Britain, France, and the world in general, they felt free to do exactly what and how they pleased. ”

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Achmed Abdullah, The Man on Horseback — Chapter 42 (1903)

“ Yes! America, too, had faults, but (Tom smiled as he coined the phrase) they were such damned decent faults!—while these ... He shivered a little.
"Hurry up!" he said to the driver, as the crowd thinned, farther north where, in the drab, reeking tenements that clustered around the barracks, the martial enthusiasm decreased proportionately with the misery of the people who lived there. ”

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Achmed Abdullah, The Man on Horseback — Chapter 42 (1903)

“ The German war machine was efficient, but, as nearly always in the case of too much efficiency, it was utterly unprepared to cope with an emergency not contained in the proper statistics and text-books. ”

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Achmed Abdullah, The Man on Horseback — Chapter 42 (1903)

“ He'll never find out. I'll look after things. Go on and hug your girl. No, no," as von Quitzow stammered objections and thanks all in the same breath, "it's perfectly O. K.! Run along and play. You needn't come back till the wee, sma' hours. I won't give you away."
A great, naïve smile overspread the Junker's round face.
"Thanks!" he bellowed, buckled on his saber, and ran out of the room.
"Item Number One!" Tom checked it off on his fingers. "And now, what next? To be sure! We'll try the same sugar pap on my servant." ”

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