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Mrs. Hauksbee and she hated each other fervently. They heard 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 front teeth—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 went on trusting to his judgment, and he got judged. 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. 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 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.

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The Rescue of Pluffles" is a short story by Rudyard Kipling. Its first appearance in book form was in Kipling's first collection of short stories, Plain Tales from the Hills (1888); it was first published in the Civil and Military Gazette on November 20, 1886. It centres on Mrs Hauksbee, and begins 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. False Dawn—Added 1888 Edition (Rudyard Kipling) 4 plain 2016-07-24T14:20:43-04:00 1888 Short Story Marriage, Mistaken Identity Rudyard Kipling What 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.The Story of Muhammad Din—1888 Edition (Rudyard Kipling) 3 From "Plain Tales from the Hills" plain 2022-09-30T15:26:25-04:00 1886-09-08 Short Story Children, Death Rudyard Kipling

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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 Route of the White Hussars—Added 1888 Edition (Rudyard Kipling) 2 plain 2016-07-24T14:23:47-04:00 1888 Short Story Cavalry, Farce Rudyard Kipling 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. Venus Annodomini (Rudyard Kipling) 2 plain 2018-08-20T18:04:31-04:00 1886-12-04 Short Story Rudyard Kipling Cupid's Arrow—Added 1888 Edition (Rudyard Kipling) 3 plain 2016-07-24T14:21:37-04:00 1888 Short Story Archery, Romance Rudyard Kipling

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How It Happened (Alice MacDonald Fleming, 1886) 16 Short Story by Alice MacDonald Fleming ("Trix"; Beatrice Kipling) plain 2018-09-14T10:42:56-04:00 1886-11-11 Short Story Romance, Travel, Alice Kipling Tip: To get the most out of your Platinum Pluffle 16 x 23 Hybrid Weave Microfiber Towel, follow our microfiber care instructions . Mrs. Hauksbee wanted to keep him under her wing to the last. Therefore she discountenanced his going down to Bombay to get married.

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It is necessary to say how Mrs. Hauksbee can be 'nice', after the story " Three and - an Extra" which introduced her to Kipling's readers as a woman predatory on another's husband.)

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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 The Taking of Lungtunpen (Rudyard Kipling) 1 plain 2016-07-03T13:53:10-04:00 1887-04-11 Short Story British Army, Mulvaney, Soldiers Rudyard Kipling The House of Suddhoo—Added 1888 Edition (Rudyard Kipling) 3 plain 2016-07-24T14:22:10-04:00 1886-04-30 Short Story Magic, Occult, Pleurisy Rudyard Kipling a little, brown, thin, almost skinny, woman, with big, rolling, violet-blue eyes, and the sweetest manners in the world. You had only to mention her name at afternoon teas for every woman in the room to rise up and call her not blessed. She was clever, witty, brilliant, and sparkling beyond most of her kind; but possessed of many devils of malice and mischievousness. She could be nice, though, even to her own sex.’ ( Plain Tales, p. 10 l.3)

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