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And in a twinkling his dignity, his Urdu and his cloak of mystery, were discarded, and he was merely an over-educated and over-fed Bengali, jabbering babu-English. "Oah, as for thatt," he affirmed easily, with an oleaginous smirk, "I daresay I shall be able to make adequate explanation. It shall be as you say, sar. I confess to fright, however, because of storm."
They laugh, and they talk of the police. 'What are you saying? asked Mr Bennett. 'Oah. He only says that if you do not let me go it will stop him in his business his ur-gent private af-fairs. This last was a reminiscence of some talk with a Eurasian clerk in the Canal Department, but it only drew a smile, which nettled him.
There was but a single person in the room and he occupied the chair before the dressing-table. As Amber came in, he rose; a middle-aged babu in a suit of pink satin, very dirty. In one hand something caught the light, glittering. "Oah, Mister Amber, I believe?" he gurgled, oily and affable. "Believe me most charmed to make acquaintance." And he laughed agreeably. But Amber's face had darkened.
'Oah no. Not that I know, but of course he found a letter-writer who can write English verree well, and so he wrote. I do hope you understand. 'That accounts for it. D'you know anything about his money affairs? Kim's face showed that he did not. 'How can I tell? 'That's what I'm askin'. Now listen if you can make head or tail o' this.
"That is very funny and very foolish," he said, nodding at the poster. "I am going down to the Northbrook Club. Will you come too?" I walked with him for some time. "You are not well," he said. "What is there in your mind? You do not talk." "Grish Chunder, you've been too well educated to believe in a God, haven't you?" "Oah, yes, here!
'Johanna must have misunderstood me, or else I've got the wrong Dutch word for these blarsted days of the week. I told Johanna I'd be out on Friday. The woman's a fool. Oah, da-am it all! he says. 'I wouldn't have sold old Van Zyl a pup like that, he says. 'I'll hunt him up and apologise.
'An' how do you like it, my son, as far as you've gone? Not much, eh? It must be hard very hard on a wild animal. Listen now. I've an amazin' epistle from your friend. 'Where is he? Is he well? Oah! If he knows to write me letters, it is all right. 'You're fond of him then? 'Of course I am fond of him. He was fond of me. 'It seems so by the look of this. He can't write English, can he?
"Oah, my dear fallow!" it was now the babu speaking, while he hopped around Amber with his head critically to one side, like an inquisitive jackdaw, now and again darting forward to peck at him with hands that nervously but deftly arranged details of his attire to please a taste fastidious and exacting in such matters "Oah, my dear fallow, surely you appreciate danger of venturing into nateeve quarters in European dress?
Kim looked out across the jungle of peaks. 'This is not my country, hakim. Easier, I think, to find one louse in a bear-skin. 'Oah, thatt is my strong points. There is no hurry for Hurree. They were at Leh not so long ago. They said they had come down from the Karakorum with their heads and horns and all.
'When thou hast counted and handled and art sure that thou canst remember them all, I cover them with this paper, and thou must tell over the tally to Lurgan Sahib. I will write mine. 'Oah! The instinct of competition waked in his breast. He bent over the tray. There were but fifteen stones on it. 'That is easy, he said after a minute.
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