The Blue-Eyed Shan
“Communists were variously reported to the north, south and east, but always hot on the trail. When the tail of the column fell behind because Colonel Prince Nikolai Andreevich Olevskoy fell into a drunken stupor compounded by sexual exhaustion, General Yang was obliged to administer a polite but public rebuke.
Olevskoy was sufficiently bitter without that. He had spent much of his youth fleeing eastward, and much of his middle age fleeing westward, and now the trucks were backfiring false alarm...s, brake drums wearing through, spark plugs fouling, air filters clogging and mechanics deserting. He had no desire to walk to the Burmese border—indeed no desire to visit Burma at all—and his nostalgia for the cavalry was passionate: if he must flee west, how he would enjoy leading a squadron across Asia!
Furthermore, the skies were a shiny pewter-gray, with never the relief of a good rain.
Furthermore, the road was in terminal disrepair and road crews had vanished in the prevailing chaos.
Furthermore, Hsiao-chi—in time he had asked her name—was physically grimy.MoreLess
Olevskoy was sufficiently bitter without that. He had spent much of his youth fleeing eastward, and much of his middle age fleeing westward, and now the trucks were backfiring false alarm...s, brake drums wearing through, spark plugs fouling, air filters clogging and mechanics deserting. He had no desire to walk to the Burmese border—indeed no desire to visit Burma at all—and his nostalgia for the cavalry was passionate: if he must flee west, how he would enjoy leading a squadron across Asia!
Furthermore, the skies were a shiny pewter-gray, with never the relief of a good rain.
Furthermore, the road was in terminal disrepair and road crews had vanished in the prevailing chaos.
Furthermore, Hsiao-chi—in time he had asked her name—was physically grimy.MoreLess
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