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'Also to give reverence to thy teacher, and' Gobind's voice softened to abstain from pulling holy men by the beard, little badling. Eh, eh, eh? The child's face was altogether hidden in the great white beard, and it began to whimper till Gobind soothed it as children are soothed all the world over, with the promise of a story. 'I did not think to frighten thee, senseless little one. Look up!
'Sit thou still, Thumbling, I said, as it made to get up and run away. 'Where is thy slate, and why has the teacher let such an evil character loose on the streets when there are no police to protect us weaklings? In which ward dost thou try to break thy neck with flying kites from the house-top? 'Nay, Sahib, nay, said the child, burrowing its face into Gobind's beard, and twisting uneasily.
Gobind's voice softened 'to abstain from pulling holy men by the beard, little badling. Eh, eh, eh? The child's face was altogether hidden in the great white beard, and it began to whimper till Gobind soothed it as children are soothed all the world over, with the promise of a story. 'I did not think to frighten thee, senseless little one. Look up! Am I angry? Aré, aré, aré!
'Sit thou still, Thumbling, I said as it made to get up and run away. 'Where is thy slate, and why has the teacher let such an evil character loose on the streets when there are no police to protect us weaklings? In which ward dost thou try to break thy neck with flying kites from the house-tops? 'Nay, Sahib, nay, said the child, burrowing its face into Gobind's beard, and twisting uneasily.
The bony knees of the old ascetic, covered with dust, were moveless as the black roots of the camphor-tree; and a dog of the village sat afar off on his haunches and whined at intervals, waiting for the white man to go, that he might have the untouched supper, which a woman of Preshbend had brought to Gobind's begging-bowl.
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