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'Now I want some yards of muslin with a nice, fierce pattern, please. He got it yellow with black tulips and returned heavily laden. 'Sorry to have kept you, said he. 'Now we'll go to my quarters to change and beautify. We came to them opposite a dun waste of parade-ground that might have been Mian Mir and bugles as they blew and drums as they rolled set heart-strings echoing.
Ling, to whom the expressed desires of Mian were as the word of the Emperor, instantly prepared the small and ornamental junk which was fastened near for this purpose, and was about to step in, when a presumptuous and highly objectionable hand restrained him.
Holden realised his pain slowly, exactly as he had realised his happiness, and with the same imperious necessity for hiding all trace of it. In the beginning he only felt that there had been a loss, and that Ameera needed comforting, where she sat with her head on her knees shivering as Mian Mittu from the house-top called, Tota! Tota! Tota!
Before these emblems Ling and Mian placed themselves in an attitude of deep humiliation, and formally expressed their gratitude to the Chief Deity for having called them into existence, to the cultivated earth for supplying them with the means of sustaining life, to the Emperor for providing the numerous safeguards by which their persons were protected at all times, and to their parents for educating them.
The person who is inscribing these lines, however, Sees before him, as it were, an assemblage of deformed and un-prepossessing hags, Venerable in age and inconsiderable in appearance; For the dignified and majestic image of Mian is ever before him, Making all others very inferior. Within the houses and streets of Canton Hang many bright lanterns.
But while he stood his eyes roamed inquisitively about the room. "All this is strange to you, Rahat Mian," said Ralston. "How long is it since you left your house in the Khyber Pass?" "Five years, your Highness," said Rahat Mian, quietly, as though there were nothing very strange in so long a confinement within his doors. "Have you never crossed your threshold for five years?" asked Ralston.
Yet the unpopular and persistently-abused Ling Would unhesitatingly prefer his own thoughts to theirs, For what makes this person's thoughts far more pleasing Is that they are invariably connected with the virtuous and ornamental Mian.
"Such as survived returned to their homes," replied Mian, "and Si-chow is safe, for the scattered and broken rebels fled to the mountains again; so much this person has learned." "In that case Si-chow is undoubtedly safe for the time, and can be left with prudence," said Ling.
I been try evva since meck out what he say. Yass. An' I jis meck it out! He say, 'Watch out, watch out, 'Mian Roussel and dat book-fellah dawn't put op jawb on you. Well, I'm a fool, but I know. You put op jawb on me; I know. But dass all right I don't take no book." He laughed with the rest, scratched his tipsy head, and backed out through the pieux.
'Let it be like unto some English name but not wholly. For he is mine. 'Then call him Tota, for that is likest English. 'Ay, Tota, and that is still the parrot. Forgive me, my lord, for a minute ago, but in truth he is too little to wear all the weight of Mian Mittu for name. He shall be Tota our Tota to us. Hearest thou, O small one?
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