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"For" Kim translated into the vernacular the clinching sentences he had heard in the dressing-room at Umballa "For," says He, "we should have done this long ago. It is not war it is a chastisement. Snff!" 'Enough. I believe. I have seen Him thus in the smoke of battles. Seen and heard. It is He! 'I saw no smoke' Kim's voice shifted to the rapt sing-song of the wayside fortune-teller.
There will be no killing. Let the priest-beaters go in bondage to their own acts. Just and sure is the Wheel, swerving not a hair! They will be born many times in torment. His head drooped, and he leaned heavily on Kim's shoulder. 'I have come near to great evil, chela, he whispered in that dead hush under the pines.
So the still forenoon wore through, and at the end of it Kim's messenger dropped from the steep pasture as unbreathed as when she had set out. 'I sent a word to the hakim, Kim explained, while she made reverence. 'He joined himself to the idolaters? Nay, I remember he did a healing upon one of them. He has acquired merit, though the healed employed his strength for evil. Just is the Wheel!
'Sit under that gun if it please thee. When didst thou steal the milkwoman's slippers, Dunnoo? That was an utterly unfounded charge sprung on the spur of the moment, but it silenced Dunnoo, who knew that Kim's clear yell could call up legions of bad bazaar boys if need arose. 'And whom didst thou worship within? said Kim affably, squatting in the shade beside the lama.
I would go without shirts or shoes, Friends, tobacco or bread Sooner than for an instant lose Either side of my head. The Two-Sided Man. 'Then in God's name take blue for red, said Mahbub, alluding to the Hindu colour of Kim's disreputable turban. Kim countered with the old proverb, 'I will change my faith and my bedding, but thou must pay for it.
'I am a priest. Kim had recovered himself, and, the woman being aught but unlovely, thought best to stand on his office. 'I warned them that the Sahibs will be angry and will make an inquisition and a report to the Rajah. There is also the Babu with them. Clerks have long tongues. 'Is that all thy trouble? The plan rose fully formed in Kim's mind, and he smiled ravishingly.
It lost nothing by repetition. 'Cease, Holy One! In mercy, cease! cried the Jat. 'Do not curse the household. I saw nothing! I heard nothing! I am thy cow! and he made to grab at Kim's bare foot beating rhythmically on the carriage floor.
"I beg pardon for waking you, sir," he said, leaning close over Kent, as though fearing the guard might be listening at the door. "But I thought it best for you to hear about the Indian, sir." "The Indian?" "Yes, sir Mooie, sir. I am quite upset over it, Mr. Kent. He told me early last evening that he had found the scow on which the girl was going down-river. He said it was hidden in Kim's Bayou."
His estate at death consisted of three papers one he called his 'ne varietur' because those words were written below his signature thereon, and another his 'clearance-certificate'. The third was Kim's birth-certificate. Those things, he was used to say, in his glorious opium-hours, would yet make little Kimball a man.
The lama was his trove, and he purposed to take possession. Kim's mother had been Irish, too. The old man halted by Zam-Zammah and looked round till his eye fell on Kim. The inspiration of his pilgrimage had left him for awhile, and he felt old, forlorn, and very empty. 'Do not sit under that gun, said the policeman loftily. 'Huh! Owl! was Kim's retort on the lama's behalf.
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