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Updated: June 21, 2025
And the Lascar, who had developed an interest in, and an odd fondness for, the child who had spoken to him in his own tongue, had been pleased with the work; and, having the silent swiftness and agile movements of many of his race, he had made his evening journeys across the few feet of roof from garret-window to garret-window, without any trouble at all.
Margray came running through the garden that afternoon, and up where we sat, and over her arm was fluttering no end of gay skirts and ribbons. "I saved this pink muslin it's real Indian, lascar lawn, fine as cobweb for you, Alice," she said. "It's not right to leave it to the moths, but you'll never need it now.
I must begin the world again. You have saved my life against my will: I demand that you give that life its only chance of happiness." As his words came to me, I remembered with a start the dead lascar, and, leading Hungerford to my cabin, I pointed to the body, and whispered that the sailor's death was only known to me.
We annexed the boat formally, broke open the passengers' bath-room door on the Manilla lines the Dons do not wash cleaned out the orange peel and cigar-ends at the bottom of the bath, hired a Lascar to shave us throughout the voyage, and then asked each other's names. Three ordinary men would have quarrelled through sheer boredom before they reached Southampton.
I tell this to the Chota Sahib " he meant Hitchcock "and he laughs." "No matter, Peroo. Another year thou wilt be able to build a bridge in thine own fashion." The Lascar grinned. "Then it will not be in this way with stonework sunk under water, as the Qyetta was sunk. I like sus-sus-pen-sheen bridges that fly from bank to bank. with one big step, like a gang-plank. Then no water can hurt.
When his master came out, the Lascar spoke to him quickly, and the Indian Gentleman turned and looked at her curiously. And afterward the Lascar always greeted her with salaams of the most profound description. And occasionally they exchanged a few words.
'Now, what's your little game? he said. That brought the buildings up with a rush, and broke the road into the usual clatter. "It was all quite simple. There was nothing in it then out of the ordinary. Just a usual Lascar, very frightened, waving a cheap cane with a handle like a snake's head. Then another policeman came up in a hurry, and pushed through the crowd.
Said Chinaman convulsively wrestles with one of his many Gods or Devils, perhaps, and snarls horribly. The Lascar laughs and dribbles at the mouth. The hostess is still. 'What visions can SHE have? the waking man muses, as he turns her face towards him, and stands looking down at it. 'Visions of many butchers' shops, and public-houses, and much credit?
'Then why did the multitude not sit down under the trees? asked the priest. 'Because we were still between houses. The city is many koss wide, the Havildar-Major resumed. 'I submitted myself to that slow-moving river and thus thus a pace at a time I made pilgrimage. There were in my rank a woman, a cripple, and a lascar from the ships.
Advancing magnificently came a second being, still more resplendent, in a purple dressing-gown; and he was complete, with towel, sponge, and soap. His eye would have impaled a London taxi-driver, and, scenting trouble, the Lascar made himself scarce. "It is preposterous to keep people waiting in this manner," he boomed; "perfectly monstrous."
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