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First Call. In May, 1909, in fashionable Darjeeling, death called for Roy. His shy, modest wife, Bibhabati Devi, 19, wasted few tears, gave no thought to immolating herself in suttee. She had his body laid on a funeral pyre. Then she invited her brother to manage the Kumar's 100-square-mile Bengal estate and enjoy its $400,000-a-year income. The brother-in-law was too Westernized to spend much time with stable boys, but otherwise Roy's old tenants found him no better than Roy. In fact, they forgot about the stable boys...
...ashes turned up in Dacca. Rumor said he was the dead Kumar, and the tenants rushed to hear the beggar's story. Roy (if it was the Kumar) said the brother-in-law had poisoned him in Darjeeling. As he lay, unconscious but not dead, on his funeral pyre, a great rain had revived...
...shoot me? . . ." Half an hour later, Pyari was dead. Said Gopal's father: "We must say she died of cholera." Said Gopal: "She must be burned at once. ... It must be too late for a post-mortem." That evening, Pyari's body was burned on a pyre beside the Ganges...
...breast of a disarmed enemy who is in the very act of pleading at their knees. We see them triumph over a dying man by describing to him the outrages his corpse will endure. We see Achilles cut the throats of twelve Trojan boys on the funeral pyre of Patroclus as naturally as we cut flowers for a grave. These men, wielding power, have no suspicion of the fact that the consequences of their deeds will at length come home to them-they too will bow the neck in their turn...
...Nazis had managed to increase airplane production in the late months of 1944, after dispersing and hiding their assembly plants. They now evidently had more planes than they could fuel. The German High Command may have decided to toss the Luftwaffe on the funeral pyre, along with everything else...