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By all right and reason, it was the Royal Geographical that should have appealed to him, but men are as chancy as children in their choice of playthings. So Creighton smiled, and thought the better of Hurree Babu, moved by like desire. He dropped the ghost-dagger and looked up at Mahbub. 'How soon can we get the colt from the stable? said the horse-dealer, reading his eyes. 'Hmm!
She lay spent and motionless beside Kim, and the crazy voices ceased. 'Wah! That work is done. May the boy be better for it; and Huneefa is surely a mistress of dawut. Help haul her aside, Babu. Do not be afraid. 'How am I to fear the absolutely non-existent? said Hurree Babu, talking English to reassure himself.
Set him upon the way, Babu, and see that old Red Hat does not lead him beyond our reach. I must get back to my horses. 'All raight, said Hurree Babu. 'He is at present curious spectacle. About third cockcrow, Kim woke after a sleep of thousands of years. Huneefa, in her corner, snored heavily, but Mahbub was gone. 'I hope you were not frightened, said an oily voice at his elbow.
If so, I decline to be witness at the trial .....What was the last hypothetical devil mentioned? 'Babuji, said Mahbub in the vernacular. 'Then you think I had better go? said Hurree Babu, half rising. 'They are, of course, dematerialized phenomena. Spencer says. Huneefa's crisis passed, as these things must, in a paroxysm of howling, with a touch of froth at the lips.
Thou art mad, Babu, said Kim with indignation. 'I wanted the papers. Suppose she had stole them? It was only practical suggestion, I think. You are not pleased, eh? A native proverb unquotable showed the blackness of Kim's disapproval. 'Well, Hurree shrugged his shoulders 'there is no accounting for thee taste. Mahbub was angry too. I do not care.
Why, it is all ventriloquy. Belly-speak eh? Kim snapped his fingers mechanically to avert whatever evil Mahbub, he knew, meditated none might have crept in through Huneefa's ministrations; and Hurree giggled once more. But as he crossed the room he was careful not to step in Huneefa's blotched, squat shadow on the boards.
Complete in every particular, said Hurree Babu, rolling into the balcony to clean his teeth at a goglet. 'I am of opeenion it is not your old gentleman's precise releegion, but rather sub-variant of same. I have contributed rejected notes To Whom It May Concern: Asiatic Quarterly Review on these subjects. Now it is curious that the old gentleman himself is totally devoid of releegiosity.
In the early morning I ascended to the throne of Solomon, in order to get a sketch of the Fort of Hurree Purbut, and in the afternoon we repaired to the lake behind the town, where there was a grand Mela or fair, on the water, to which the Maharajah and all his court went in state.
Of all the boys hurrying back to St Xavier's, from Sukkur in the sands to Galle beneath the palms, none was so filled with virtue as Kimball O'Hara, jiggeting down to Umballa behind Hurree Chunder Mookerjee, whose name on the books of one section of the Ethnological Survey was R.17. And if additional spur were needed, the Babu supplied it. After a huge meal at Kalka, he spoke uninterruptedly.
She gave a hysterical, choking sob that was half a sigh; then her eyes flashed upward to his they were wide and bright and shining her lips were parted, her body was lithe and full of life. She slipped from his embrace, whispering: "Yes, yes! Quickly, senor!" And the next instant they were out upon the wide gallery with the dance behind them. "Hurree, hurree! Or they will follow."
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