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And in the meantime all the others, to whom he paid no more attention than as if they were not there, seeing absolutely nothing before him but the eyes of Chamu that were starting from his head, fell upon him all together in a body, like a swarm of bees, and stung him, as it were, to death, exactly as they chose, cutting him to pieces with swords and knives.
Used to closely guarded women's quarters, the East wastes little time on wooing when the barriers are passed or down. But she felt irresistibly curious, and after all there was Chamu. "Thanks, I took breakfast before dawn." The Rajput accepted the proffered chair without acknowledging the butler's existence. Tess passed him the big silver cigarette box. "Then let me offer you a drink."
People who love the same thing, you know, are not exactly strangers." Almost, if not quite for the first time Tess grew very grateful for Chamu, who was still hovering at hand. "If my husband had known, he would have stayed to receive you." "Oh, no! I took good care for that! I continued my ride until after I knew he had gone for the day."
Hence, having passed my word to thee about my return, thou mayst be sure that I would keep my word. One, again, that acts improperly towards a friend, comes to be regarded as a thief. By this, Utanka reminds the king that he should not inflict any wrong on him by carrying out his intention of eating him up. Vilwa is the Aegle marmalos. Chamu here is used in a general sense, viz., a division.
I'd orders from Gungadhura to search your house, Krishna knows what for, and I rode up to ask your leave to do it, hoping you'd be alone after the party. Chamu told me you and your husband had gone out, and one of the three beggars gave me a message intended for you that tallied pretty close with one I knew you'd received already, so I guessed where to head for, and sent the dog in advance.
"There is an outside door to the cellar, behind the house," said Chamu. "But that is of iron, idiot! and bolts on the inside with a great bar resting in the stonework. Are there no tools in the garden?" Chamu did not know, and the money-lender went himself to see. There Pinga with the vertical smile saw him choose a small crow-bar and return into the house with it.
My name was on the money that Chamu paid you with. You knew he stole it." "I did not know!" "Prove that in court, then!" "Bring the women in!" he grumbled. "I am no cackler from the roofs!" Yasmini did not wait for him to change his mind but shepherded her scared dependents through the door, and called for Ismail. "Did you see these women enter?" she demanded. "Aye. I saw. Have I not eyes?"
Tom Tripe had finished wiping his mustache, and Tess was still wondering just how to manage without betraying the sex of the other or the fact that she herself did not yet know her visitor's name, when Chamu returned with the bone. He threw it to the dog from a safe distance, and was sniffed at scornfully for his pains. "Won't he take it?" asked Tess. "Not from a black man. Bring it here, you!"
And while he looked from her to Chamu, and from Chamu back again to her, Chamu got back upon his horse, and all those riders rode away. But Babhru stood exactly where he was, like a picture painted on a wall, hardly heeding their departure, gazing at Aranyání.
The trembling Chamu was led into a room where an ink-pot stood open on a desk, and watched narrowly while he made a thumb-mark and scratched a signature. Then: "Take the money and pay thy puppy's debt with it. Afterward beat the boy. And see to it," Yasmini advised, "that Mukhum Dass gives a receipt, lest he claim the debt a second time!"
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