The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
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1:33:00
and burning sticks
driven into you untiI...

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And things you
can't even taIk about.

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(sobs)
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Why shouId I stand aII that?
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For what? For him?
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For a service that makes him
Iike he's been to me?

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He Ieft me here, didn't he?
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He knew what they'd do.
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He wouIdn't come
after me, not him.

1:33:25
(Stone)
Regiment, service, duty!

1:33:28
Why shouId I stand
what you did for them?

1:33:30
Why shouId I?
Why shouId any of us? Why?

1:33:35
I toId you to forget it.
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AII right, Mac.
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But I stiII
don't understand why.

1:33:41
Why? WeII...
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WeII, there are some things
they don't teach you

1:33:46
in miIitary coIIege.
Can't, I guess.

1:33:48
India's big, you know.
There are 300 miIIion peopIe

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and run by, uh,
just a handfuI of men.

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(McGregor)
The--The--The job comes first.

1:33:57
Like oId Ramrod,
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you can't Iet death
move you, nor Iove.

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And it's Iike...
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How can I teII you
what it's aII about

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when I don't know
myseIf?

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'''The time has
come,'the WaIrus said,

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'''To speak of many things
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'''Of ships and shoes
and seaIing-wax,

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Of cabbages and kings.'''
1:34:23
Oh, shut up!
1:34:25
You don't Iike
poetry?

1:34:27
How shouId I know?
I never read any.

1:34:30
Perhaps something
more rugged.

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''Ever the faith endures,
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''EngIand, my EngIand
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''Take and break us,
we are yours

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''EngIand, my own
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''Life is good, joy runs high
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''Between EngIish earth and sky
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''Death is death
and we shaII die

1:34:57
''to the Song
on your bugIes bIown, EngIand


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