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Updated: June 13, 2025
Anyway, I knew nothing more until I came to in Mr. Lurgan's kitchen. I wasn't much hurt feel none the worse of it except for a sore head and shoulder. But, oh, Gift o' God, how you have grown! I can't realize that you are the little sister I left four years ago. I suppose you have been thinking I was dead?" "Yes, and, oh, Donald, where have you been?"
A Hindu child, some ten years old, squatted under a lamp-post. 'Where is Mr Lurgan's house? demanded Kim. 'I do not understand English, was the answer, and Kim shifted his speech accordingly. 'I will show. Together they set off through the mysterious dusk, full of the noises of a city below the hillside, and the breath of a cool wind in deodar-crowned Jakko, shouldering the stars.
At the end of the day, Kim and the Hindu boy whose name varied at Lurgan's pleasure were expected to give a detailed account of all that they had seen and heard their view of each man's character, as shown in his face, talk, and manner, and their notions of his real errand.
Through the afternoons he and the Hindu boy would mount guard in the shop, sitting dumb behind a carpet-bale or a screen and watching Mr Lurgan's many and very curious visitors. There were small Rajahs, escorts coughing in the veranda, who came to buy curiosities such as phonographs and mechanical toys.
But she realized that he was unconscious, and that he would speedily freeze to death if help were not brought. The footprints of a horse galloping across the prairie suggested a fall and a runaway, but Theodora did not waste time in speculation. She ran back at full speed to Mr. Lurgan's, and roused the household. In a few minutes Mr.
In Lord Devon's report he found the superior tranquillity of Ulster was traced to the security given to the tenant by tenant right, in proof of which he quoted the evidence of Mr. Handcock, Lord Lurgan's agent, and other Northern witnesses who were examined before the Devon Commission. "This then," he continued, "is the evidence of the North of Ireland as to the value of tenant right.
Kim rubbed his nose and grew furious, thinking, as usual, in Hindi. 'This with a beggar from the bazar might be good, but I am a Sahib and the son of a Sahib and, which is twice as much more beside, a student of Nucklao. Damn Mr Lurgan's eyes! It is some sort of machinery like a sewing-machine.
Kim turned it over with the air of a wise warlock, muttering a Mohammedan invocation. 'This is wisdom I learned from the Sahibs, he whispered to the lama; and here, when one thinks of his training at Lurgan's, he spoke no more than the truth. 'There is a great evil in this man's fortune, as shown by the Stars, which which troubles him. Shall I take it away?
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