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'Why not follow the Way thyself, and so accompany the boy? Mahbub stared stupefied at the magnificent insolence of the demand, which across the Border he would have paid with more than a blow. Then the humour of it touched his worldly soul. 'Softly softly one foot at a time, as the lame gelding went over the Umballa jumps.
'Protector of the Poor! The man backed towards the voice. 'Mahbub Ali says 'Hah! What says Mahbub Ali? He made no attempt to look for the speaker, and that showed Kim that he knew. 'The pedigree of the white stallion is fully established. 'What proof is there? The Englishman switched at the rose-hedge in the side of the drive.
At Umballa I carried the news of the bay mare's pedigree. After what he had seen in the garden, he was not going to write of white stallions. 'Slower a little. What has a bay mare to do ... Is it Mahbub Ali, the great dealer? 'Who else? I have been in his service. Take more ink. Again. As the order was, so I did it.
Mahbub laughed a great deal, and advised him to make up a written report as well; and in the back of the big account-book that lay under the flap of Mahbub's pet saddle Kim fell to work.. 'It must hold everything that thou hast seen or touched or considered. Write as though the Jung-i-Lat Sahib himself had come by stealth with a vast army outsetting to war. 'How great an army?
One noon when, after a spell of work in the hot kitchen, he had rushed to the outer door to breath the air, he fell upon a group of persons splendidly arrayed, who welcomed his appearance with unfriendly glee. Yuhanna Mahbûb, the bully, seized his arm, and threatened him with his whip not altogether playfully. "Confess the truth!" he commanded, with his cruel grin.
The other, who boasted a very large hooked nose, like a parrot's beak, which reduced the rest of his face to insignificance, was Yuhanna Mahbûb, a famous bully. "Now we have thee!" cried Elias, laughing loudly. "By Allah, it is rude in thee to shun thy friends." "Is it true that the Emîr gives thee an English pound every day?" inquired Yuhanna.
'Wait and see. Only if any chance comes to me thou wilt know where to seek for the papers. 'This were better in Mahbub Ali's hands than a Bengali's, said Kim scornfully. 'There are more ways of getting to a sweetheart than butting down a wall. 'See here the Hell appointed for avarice and greed.
I would go without shirts or shoes, Friends, tobacco or bread Sooner than for an instant lose Either side of my head. The Two-Sided Man. 'Then in God's name take blue for red, said Mahbub, alluding to the Hindu colour of Kim's disreputable turban. Kim countered with the old proverb, 'I will change my faith and my bedding, but thou must pay for it.
"There is no blood in it, nor any other animal matter." This was repeated to Mahbub, and, after some further hesitation, he advanced to the table. A moment later, Sylvester was bending above the prints. Then he looked up, his face red with astonishment, and motioned me to approach. "Look at that!" he said, and laid the prints before me.
Nay' he caught Mahbub's sword-keen glance 'indeed I have never heard his name. Is he by chance he lowered his voice 'one of us? 'What talk is this of us, Sahib? Mahbub Ali returned, in the tone he used towards Europeans. 'I am a Pathan; thou art a Sahib and the son of a Sahib. Lurgan Sahib has a shop among the European shops. All Simla knows it.
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