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Mulvaney, he sez wan evenin', very contempshus, 'you're growin' very jeldy wid your feet. Among gentlemen, he sez, 'among gentlemen that's called no pretty name. "'Among privits 'tis different, I sez. 'Get back to your tent. I'm sergeant here, I sez. "There was just enough in the voice av me to tell him he was playin' wid his life betune his teeth.
I thought of saying 'jeldy jow', but I couldn't remember what it meant, so I didn't say it. I knew another phrase, but it wouldn't come to my mind. I moved on, purposing to dismiss him from my thoughts, but his bare legs and bare feet kept him there. They kept drawing me back from the sunny side to a point whence I could see him.
And for untold ages India in trouble has been pursued with the very remark which I was going to utter but didn't, because its meaning had slipped me: "Jeldy jow!" Why, it was the very thing. In the early brightness we made a long drive out to the Fort. Part of the way was beautiful.
"No, serang," said "Robat." "But you speak Pondicherry the boy say, Robat?" "Yes, I speak it, serang. Many English people speak it a little. Very easy for English people learn a little, just the same as we learn jeldy jow, toom sooar."
I thought of saying 'jeldy jow', but I couldn't remember what it meant, so I didn't say it. I knew another phrase, but it wouldn't come to my mind. I moved on, purposing to dismiss him from my thoughts, but his bare legs and bare feet kept him there. They kept drawing me back from the sunny side to a point whence I could see him.
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