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Updated: May 19, 2025
Mohammed Ahzim Khan draws his finger across his throat, and the officer repeats "Afghan badmash, badmash, b-a-d-m-a-s-h." This parrot-like repetition is uttered in accents so pleaful, and is, withal, accompanied by such a searching stare into my face, that its comicality for the minute overcomes any sense of disappointment at the fall of my hopes.
"He is up to all manner of tricks, and if he is not checked, he will grow up a regular Badmásh." "God forbid!" remarked Hiramani; "but has he not been too cruelly used by his uncle? You must have noticed the welts on his naked back. I counted five as broad as my forefinger. How could a grown-up man torture a child like that?" and she looked meaningly at her hostess.
And I said to him: "'Sahib, said I, 'am I a badmash? A scoundrel? "'No, said he, 'not unless you changed your morals when you left the service. "Said I, 'I am still in the service. "'Good, said he. 'What then? "'I go listening again in no-man's land, said I, and he whistled softly. 'Is there not a roof below your window? I asked him, and he nodded.
The bullet head of one sturdy badmash cracked like an eggshell under the butt of the bold tar's musket; a second received the terrible hook square in the teeth; and a third, no other than Parmiter himself, was caught round the neck at the next lunge of the hook, and flung, with a mighty heave, full into the midst of the defenders. Bulger drew a long breath.
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