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The white visitor is a "Kablunak," or outlander, while a breed born in the country is a "Kablunangayok," or one partaking of the qualities of both the Innuk and the Kablunak. Those who live in the Koksoak district are called "Koksoagmiut," * and those of the George River district are the "Kangerlualuksoagmiut."
Their friends shall find somewhat waiting them here that shall make them wish they had kept their oaths!" Then he said to me: "Speak out, Ranald, and tell these thanes your news." I spoke plainly, and they listened with whitening faces and muttered oaths. And when I ceased, one cried, hardly knowing what he said, as I think: "This outlander rode with Osmund the Dane to bring them on us even now."
'Rememberest thou aught of thy father's speech? 'It is long ago. But there is one word which he said often. Thus "Shun." Then I and my brethren stood upon our feet, our hands to our sides. Thus. 'Even so. And what was thy mother? 'A woman of the hills. We be Lepchas of Darjeeling, but me they call an outlander because my hair is as thou seest.
Out of its insularity it made occasional excursions to dinners and week-ends; even into marriage, now and then with an outlander. But almost always it went back, eager for its home of dressing-room and footlights, of stage entrances up dirty alleys, of door-keepers and managers and parts and costumes. Occasionally she had callers, men she had met or who were brought to see her.
'What be the man's crimes, Rajah Sahib? said I. 'Firstly, he is an outlander and no man of mine own people. Secondly, since of my favour I gave him land upon his first coming, he refuses to pay revenue. Am I not the lord of the earth, above and below, entitled by right and custom to one-eighth of the crop?
"He'd see the Outlander early-bird after the young domestic worm," was the slow reply. For a moment a curious silence fell upon the group. It was as though some one had heard what had been said some one who ought not to have heard. That is exactly what had happened. Rudyard had not gone home.
A little hope there was as yet. But he, as half in shame, had pointed to the entrance of the Women's Garden. "I have no enmity against you, outlander. Yet my mother desires to talk with you. Also there is some bargaining to be completed with Ahasuerus here." Then Melicent knew what had prompted the proconsul's murder.
He stood naked, but he was clothed in inherit dignity. And there was power with that dignity, power and a pride before which even the more physically impressive Chief Ranger might have to give place. "You have magic also, outlander," he replied. "Where walks this long-toothed shadow of yours now?" "Where once the men of Khatka walked, Lumbrilo.
If an Englishman's business requires that he shall learn the habits and customs of the Patagonians or the Chicagoans or any other race which, because it is not British, he naturally regards as barbaric, he goes and learns them and learns them well. Otherwise your Britisher does not bother himself with what the outlander may or may not do.
Graham, although an outlander, knew his California, and, while every girl of the swimming suits was gowned for dinner, was not surprised to find no man similarly accoutered. Nor had he made the mistake of so being himself, despite the Big House and the magnificent scale on which it operated. Between the first and second gongs, all the guests drifted into the long dining room.
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