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Updated: June 18, 2025
I will have a divorce." And we say, "Yes, yes; it is very sad. Of course, you must have a divorce; but we cannot give you one to-night. Go away, and come again in three days or in four days, when we have more time." They go away, thakin, and they do not return. Next day it is all forgotten. You see, they don't know what they want; they turn with the wind they have no patience.
'Perhaps, she said, with a little laugh and a side-glance at her husband 'perhaps, if he had gone with the thakin to Rangoon, he might have fallen in love with someone there and forgotten me; for I know they are very pretty, those Rangoon ladies, and of better manners than I, who am but a jungle girl.
Then she began to cry bitterly, sobbing as if her heart would break. The sunset died out of the sky, and the shadows took all the world and made it gray and dark. No one said anything, only the woman cried. 'Thakin, she said at last, 'what am I to do? Tell me. Then my friend spoke. 'You can divorce him, he said; 'you can go to the elders and get a divorce. Won't that be best?
"It is not known," said Mhtoon Pah, shaking his head dubiously, and then rage seemed to flare up in him once more. "It is Leh Shin, the Chinaman," he said, violently. "Let it be known to you, Thakin, they eat strange meats, they hold strange revels. I have heard things " he lowered his voice. "I have been told of how they slay."
What reason have you for imagining that there has been foul play?" "Seem to suppose, Thakin?" Mhtoon Pah gasped again, like a drowning man. "And yet the Thakin knows the sewer city, the Chinese quarter, the streets where men laugh horribly in the dark.
And my friend, surprised, asked his servant how it was. 'Didn't anyone come to call? he asked. 'Oh yes, the servant answered; 'many gentlemen came to call the officers of the regiment and others. But I told them the thakin was out, and that the thakinma could not see anyone. I sent them all away.
'You know, thakin, said a man to me, 'that we say sometimes that women cannot attain unto the great deliverance, that only men will come there. We think that a woman must be born again as a man before she can enter upon the way that leads to heaven. 'Why should that be so? I asked. 'I have looked at the life of the Buddha, I have read the sacred books, and I can find nothing about it.
"The Padre Sahib, going in a hurry, spoke a word to him; I saw that with my eyes." "Mr. Heath?" "Yes, Thakin, no other." "And besides Mr. Heath, was there anyone else who saw him?" Mhtoon Pah bowed himself double in his chair and rocked about. "The whole street saw him go, but none saw him return, neither will they.
Mhtoon Pah stood and looked curiously at Hartley, and remained in a state of suspended animation for a second. "How could I see him come back?" he said, in a flat, expressionless voice. "I went to the Pagoda, Thakin. I am building a shrine there, and shall thereby acquire much merit. I did not see the Reverend return. Besides, he might not have come by the way of Paradise Street." "He might not."
I shall tell Hartley Sahib; the Thakin will strike surely and swiftly." "He will do nothing of the kind," said Mrs. Wilder, with a quick look at Heath. "Give me my bowl, Mhtoon Pah; you are letting yourself dream foolish things. Absalom" she tapped the polished floor with her well-shaped foot "will come back and explain everything himself, and then whoever is responsible will bear the penalty."
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