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Updated: June 10, 2025
I hope Mr Lurgan will note my action. Kim yawned and stretched himself. It was good to turn and twist within loose clothes once again. 'What is this? He looked curiously at the heavy duffle-stuff loaded with the scents of the far North. 'Oho! That is inconspicuous dress of chela attached to service of lamaistic lama.
There were Babus to whom Lurgan Sahib talked with austerity and authority, but at the end of each interview he gave them money in coined silver and currency notes. There were occasional gatherings of long-coated theatrical natives who discussed metaphysics in English and Bengali, to Mr Lurgan's great edification. He was always interested in religions.
I had the carriage to myself almost all the way, and gave up all the time I could snatch from the constantly varying and often very beautiful scenery to reading a curious pamphlet which I picked up in Dublin entitled Pour I'Irlande. It purports to have been written by a "Canadian priest" living at Lurgan in Ireland, and to be a reply to M. de Mandat Grancey's volume, Chez Paddy.
His disreputable friend could further twitch his ears, almost like a goat, and Kim was disappointed that this new man could not imitate him. 'Do not be afraid, said Lurgan Sahib suddenly. 'Why should I fear? 'Thou wilt sleep here tonight, and stay with me till it is time to go again to Nucklao. It is an order. 'It is an order, Kim repeated. 'But where shall I sleep?
'You impenitent old heathen! Creighton turned to Lurgan. The black beard nodded assent to the wisdom of the Afghan's dyed scarlet. 'I should have used him long ago, said Lurgan. 'The younger the better. That is why I always have my really valuable jewels watched by a child. You sent him to me to try. I tried him in every way: he is the only boy I could not make to see things.
There were the vicar's two sons of Castle Brady in course I could not associate with such beggarly brats as them, and many a battle did we have as to who should take the wall in Brady's Town; there was Pat Lurgan, the blacksmith's son, who had the better of me four times before we came to the crowning fight, when I overcame him; and I could mention a score more of my deeds of prowess in that way, but that fisticuff facts are dull subjects to talk of, and to discuss before high-bred gentlemen and ladies.
Why did he want to poison you? 'Because he is so fond of me. Suppose you were fond of someone, and you saw someone come, and the man you were fond of was more pleased with him than he was with you, what would you do? Kim thought. Lurgan repeated the sentence slowly in the vernacular.
'Their weights? said Lurgan Sahib impassively. 'Three five five and four ruttees as I judge it. There is one piece of old greenish pipe amber, and a cut topaz from Europe. There is one ruby of Burma, of two ruttees, without a flaw, and there is a balas-ruby, flawed, of two ruttees.
Nay' he caught Mahbub's sword-keen glance 'indeed I have never heard his name. Is he by chance he lowered his voice 'one of us? 'What talk is this of us, Sahib? Mahbub Ali returned, in the tone he used towards Europeans. 'I am a Pathan; thou art a Sahib and the son of a Sahib. Lurgan Sahib has a shop among the European shops. All Simla knows it.
But even more than the purely Persian meal cooked by Lurgan Sahib with his own hands, the shop fascinated Kim.
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