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You have only seen a man named Gunga Singh." "That's all very fine, missy, but the butler that man Chamu he knows you well enough. He'll get the story to the maharajah's ears." "Leave that to me." "You dassen't trust him, miss!" Again came the golden laugh, expressive of the worldly wisdom of a thousand women, and sheer delight in it. "I shall stay here, if the memsahib permits."
And Atirupa looked at him, with disappointment: and he said: O Chamu, is this thy story, and is this all? And Chamu laughed softly, and he said: Maháráj, he is a sage, who knows where to stop. But I will have compassion on thy curiosity, and this much I will tell thee in addition, that one of the speakers was a woman.
"A big dog might serve better after all," mused Tess. "Chamu beats the servants, and takes commissions, even from the beggars." "How do you know?" "They told me." "Um, Bing and Ping would better keep away. There's no obligation to camp here." "Only, if we fired Chamu I suppose the maharajah would be offended. He made such a great point of sending us a faithful servant." "True.
Then again, Sita Ram had not yet sent new servants to replace the potential poisoners; and Chamu had put up a piteous bleating, using every argument, from his being an orphan and the father of a son, down to the less appealing one that Gungadhura would be angry. In vain Dick reassured him that he and cook and maharajah might all go to hell together with his, Dick Blaine's, express permission.
Wilt thou actually wait to understand, till a little Atirupa comes, to spit, exactly like his father, in thy face? And as Babhru listened, all at once the words of Chamu as he went away rose up and stood before him, as if they had lain waiting, and as it were sleeping in his soul, till roused into recollection by her own.
The Rajput seemed unable to look away from her but ignoring Chamu, as he came up the steps, appraised her inch by inch from the white shoes upward until as he reached the top their eyes met. Chamu followed him fussily. Tess could not remember ever having seen such eyes.
Captain Williamson, in his Oriental Field Sports, gives the following account of the Dholes: "They are to be found chiefly, or only, in the country from Midnapore to Chamu, and even there are not often to be met with. They are of the size of a small greyhound. Their countenance is enlivened by unusually brilliant eyes.
"Bring the leg-of-mutton bone of yesterday." "That is for soup today." "Bring it!" Chamu was standing between Tom Tripe and the Rajputni, with his back to the latter; so nobody saw the hand that slipped something into the ample folds of his sash. He departed muttering by way of the steps and the garden, and the dog growled acknowledgment of the compliment.
You'd think after I gave Gungadhura the key and all, he'd have the courtesy to use it and draw the nails! His head can't ache enough to suit me! Me for the princess! If I'd any scruples, believe me, bo, they're vanished gone Vamoosed! That young woman's going to win against the whole darned outfit, English, Indian and all! Me for her! Chamu! Where's Chamu? Why aren't the lamps lit?"
And as Babhru stood gazing at her, like one struck by a thunderbolt, Chamu said again: Thou owest me not abuse, but gratitude, O woodman: for see, I have brought her back to thee, all across the sand, where many in my place would have left her in the middle of the way, for it was a thankless task, and she was a cross-grained burden, that was very loath to come at all.
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