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"Well," murmured the diffident objector, "I'm no friend of tyranny; I can't say much for Russia " "I should think you couldn't. Who can? A country plunged in the darkness of the Middle Ages! The country of the knout! Pah! Who can say anything for Russia?"
"And what must I do for the Company?" "Only go to India the finest country in the world. Rivers bigger than the Ouse. Hills higher than anything near Spalding. Trees you never saw such trees! Fruits you never saw such fruits!" "And the people what kind are they?" "Pah! Kauloes blacks a set of rascals! And they calls us lolloes, which, in their beastly gibberish, means reds. Why do you stare so?"
A second assault would have been made, but during the night the Maoris tied up their dogs, and quietly dropping over the palisades at the rear of the pah, got far away into the forest before their retreat was known, for the howling of the dogs all night within the pah kept the officers from suspecting that the Maoris were escaping.
Did he realize he was defeated in this passage with a girl? Was he trying to cover from us the knowledge of his defeat? And then again the bigness of him made itself manifest. He acknowledged soberly: "You have bested me, Lady Elza. And you've made me realize that I Tarrano have almost lowered myself to admit this Jac Hallen my rival." He laughed harshly. "Not so! A rival? Pah!
The rest of the time was spent in the cell, and Absalom broke into incoherent wailing as he called Hartley and Coryndon to witness that it had been a hard life. As the end of his story approached, Absalom grew more dramatic and quoted the parting words of Mhtoon Pah before he went out to attend the Pwé at the Pagoda.
He was pretty secure in the belief that Leh Shin had not seen the boy, and that he knew nothing of the gold lacquer bowl, but he also believed that Mhtoon Pah had been far too crafty to tell the Chinaman that anyone particularly wanted such a treasure of art.
I plunged my own spoon into my plate, and carried it to my mouth. Pah! Any thing more nauseous I had seldom tasted. The gods were indeed to be pitied! I covered my face with my hands as a laugh pealed around the room; and Norman came dashing into it, and up to me. "Amy," he said, in a loud whisper which could be heard by all, "mother says don't let any one touch that stuff of yours. It's awful!"
'Jim was silent for a while. "I know he liked me. That's what made it so hard. Such a splendid man! . . . That morning he slipped his hand under my arm. . . . He, too, was familiar with me." He burst into a short laugh, and dropped his chin on his breast. "Pah!
"There was a bowl, a bowl such as you describe, O servant of Kings, and I thought to procure it, for word was brought me that Mhtoon Pah had need of it, and I desired to hold it before him and withdraw it again, and to inspire his covetousness and rage and then to sell it from my own hand, but he leagues with devils and his power is great, for, behold, Honourable Haj, the bowl that was mine was lost by the man from the seas who was about to sell it to me.
"Why, captain, how are we going to find the way back again?" The captain opened his eyes slightly and smiled, as he took a little compass from his pocket. "With this," he said; "but pah! I could find my way here with my eyes shut. Look; there's a good place for a fire, and the boys here can get plenty of good fish, if you have a line, for the men to cook."
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