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Updated: June 5, 2025
'But why come here, Babuji? 'Ah! Thatt is the question, as Shakespeare hath it. I come to congratulate you on your extraordinary effeecient performance at Delhi. Oah! I tell you we are all proud of you. It was verree neat and handy. Our mutual friend, he is old friend of mine. He has been in some dam'-tight places. Now he will be in some more.
If Comrade Four will consult his minutes" a nod singled out the babu, who, beaming with importance, produced a note-book "they will show we adjourned to consider overtures made by the Smolny Institute of Petrograd, seeking our coöperation toward accelerating the social revolution in England." "Thatt," the Bengali affirmed, "is true bill of factt."
Thatt is their short road down the river by Bunji and Astor. But they have made mischief in the West. That is ascertained by process of elimination, and also by asking questions from people that I cure so well. Our friends have been a long time playing about and producing impressions. So they are well known from far off. You will see me catch them somewhere in Chini valley.
'Huneefa she makes them for two rupees twelve annas with oh, all sorts of exorcisms. They are quite common, except they are partially black enamel, and there is a paper inside each one full of names of local saints and such things. Thatt is Huneefa's look-out, you see? Huneefa makes them onlee for us, but in case she does not, when we get them we put in, before issue, one small piece of turquoise.
'Oah, I know all thatt. Kim drew his bow again at a venture. If they were not going to the war, at least they did not know what he knew of the talk in the veranda at Umballa. 'I know you are not at thee war now; but I tell you that as soon as you get to Umballa you will be sent to the war the new war. It is a war of eight thousand men, besides the guns. 'That's explicit.
'Will they kill thee? 'Oah, thatt is nothing. I am good enough Herbert Spencerian, I trust, to meet little thing like death, which is all in my fate, you know. But but they may beat me. 'Why? Hurree Babu snapped his fingers with irritation.
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."
"When did she die?" "Three or four weeks ago." "What was her name?" asked Pinky. Mrs. Bray closed her lips tightly and shook her head. "Can't betray thatt secret," she replied. "Oh, just as you like;" and Pinky gave her head an impatient toss. "High sense of honor! Respect for the memory of a departed friend! But it won't go down with me, Fan. We know each other too well.
"Run, Rannie, run!" panted Jane. "I got to get home an' tell mamma about it before Willie. I bet I ketch Hail Columbia, anyway, when he does get there!" And in this she was not mistaken: she caught Hail Columbia. It lasted all afternoon. It was still continuing after dinner. Thatt evening, when an oft-repeated yodel, followed by a shrill-wailed, "Jane-ee!
"I'm glad to hear that," said the impenitent Copper. "Are you? You can think of it when I'm taking the skin off your back eh?... My father, he lost everything everything down to his self-respect. You don't know what thatt means eh?" "Why?" said Copper. "I'm smokin' baccy stole by a renegid. Why wouldn't I know?" If it came to a flogging on that hillside there might be a chance of reprisals.
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