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Updated: May 12, 2025
"Here," he said, and the shadow of his hand hovered over the burning-ghats of Benares, where a Brahmin of the new persuasion watched the straight spires of funereal smoke ascend into the glow of the late afternoon, while he talked to an English painter, his friend, of the blind intolerance of race and caste and custom in India. "Or here."
The lama gazed placidly up-stream, where in long, smudged perspective the ceaseless columns of smoke go up from the burning-ghats by the river. Now and again, despite all municipal regulations, the fragment of a half-burned body bobbed by on the full current. 'But for thee, said the Kamboh to Kim, drawing the child into his hairy breast, 'I might today have gone thither with this one.
The lama had forbidden him to set blankets or get food. 'I know I know. Who but I? she cackled. 'We who go down to the burning-ghats clutch at the hands of those coming up from the River of Life with full water-jars yes, brimming water-jars. I did the boy wrong. He lent thee his strength? It is true that the old eat the young daily. Stands now we must restore him.
"I wish we three could go about the world together," Alix answered. "I'd love to see Japan and India I'd like to see burning-ghats on the sacred Gunga!" she added, cheerfully. "But I don't know money doesn't buy you much!" she yawned. "Perhaps I'll go to some Old Ladies' Home, and give each of the old girls one hundred dollars a quarter wouldn't they have fun, buying scarfs and wool and caps?"
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