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They do not know the land. It was nothing, said Kim, and began his tale. When he came to the disguisement and the interview with the girl in the bazar, Mahbub Ali's gravity went from him. He laughed aloud and beat his hand on his thigh. 'Shabash! Shabash! Oh, well done, little one! What will the healer of turquoises say to this?
Kharrak Singh hailed their astonishment as a tribute to himself, for some reason or other, and clapped his hands and cried "Shabash!" until he was tired. "Is the child unhurt?" the foremost Komadan ventured at last to ask, rather unnecessarily. "Fool! who should have hurt me?" cried Kharrak Singh. "The Feringhee," answered every one together. "Surely ye are all mad, O people.
"Tell the Miss Sahib that I will wait as long as she chooses, but that I must speak to her before dinner," he said. "Shabash, Gerrard! Nothing like putting your foot down in good time," cried James Antony, charging out of the house and mounting his waiting pony. "If only the General and I had done it, we should not both be in fear of our lives at this moment.
Are they really gone?" whispered the subaltern feebly. "Yes, Parker, it's quite true. They've gone. You've helped to save India. You held them off God knows how you did it. Your wound's a nasty one; but you'll get over it." He rose and held out his hands to the others. "Shabash! And the men of the alien race pressed round him and clasped his hands gratefully.
'I saw Rajahs, and elephants with gold and silver trappings; and they lit all the fireworks at once, whereby eleven men were killed, my fire-work-maker among them, and I was blown across a tent but took no harm. Then I came back to the rel with a Sikh horseman, to whom I was groom for my bread; and so here. 'Shabash! said Mahbub Ali. 'But what does the Colonel Sahib say?
The mess rose joyously as he thrust forward the hilt of his saber, in token of fealty, for the colonel of the White Hussars to touch, and dropped into a vacant chair amid shouts of "Rung ho! Hira Singh!" "Did I whack you over the knee, old man?" "Ressaidar Sahib, what the devil made you play that kicking pig of a pony in the last ten minutes?" "Shabash, Ressaidar Sahib!"
"Then mine eyes have played me false, hazoor. Shabash!" Salig Singh bowed resignedly. "Well, then, what do you want? Why have you brought me here?" "Why didst thou come? There was no force used: thou didst come of thine own will thine own will, which is the will of the Body, hazoor!" "Oh, damnation! Why d'you insist on beating round the bush forever? You know well why I came.
"Shabash!" cried the fakir, in a shrill tone of approval that drew all eyes to the lean and naked and ash-besprinkled figure seated at the foot of the veranda steps. "Shabash! shabash!" he cried, again and yet again. "And your story?" asked the Rajput, with a nod of inquiry and encouragement.
"Did I whack you over the knee, old man?" "Ressaidar Sahib, what the devil made you play that kicking pig of a pony in the last ten minutes?" "Shabash, Ressaidar Sahib!" Then the voice of the colonel, "The health of Ressaidar Hira Singh!"
His amused comrades greeted me with shouts of "Shabash, Sahib!" He came back later in the day, with clasped hands imploring forgiveness, which I readily granted, as he was a clever workman. A few days after this incident I was returning home one morning from a tree in which I had been keeping watch for the man-eaters during the previous night.
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