` Listen to me , ' said the Colonel from the veranda , speaking in the vernacular . ` In three days thou wilt go with me to Lucknow , seeing and hearing new things all the while . Therefore sit still for three days and do not run away . Thou wilt go to school at Lucknow . ' ` Shall I meet my Holy One there ? ' Kim whimpered . ` At least Lucknow is nearer to Benares than Umballa . It may be thou wilt go under my protection . Mahbub Ali knows this , and he will be angry if thou returnest to the Road now . Remember -- much has been told me which I do not forget . ' ' I will wait , ' said Kim , ` but the boys will beat me . ' Then the bugles blew for dinner . Chapter 7 Unto whose use the pregnant suns are poised With idiot moons and stars retracing stars ? Creep thou betweene -- thy coming 's all unnoised . Heaven hath her high , as Earth her baser , wars . Heir to these tumults , this affright , that fraye -LRB- By Adam 's , fathers ' , own , sin bound alway -RRB- ; Peer up , draw out thy horoscope and say Which planet mends thy threadbare fate or mars ? Sir John Christie . In the afternoon the red-faced schoolmaster told Kim that he had been ` struck off the strength ' , which conveyed no meaning to him till he was ordered to go away and play . Then he ran to the bazar , and found the young letter-writer to whom he owed a stamp . ` Now I pay , ' said Kim royally , ` and now I need another letter to be written . '
` Mahbub Ali is in XXXXX , ' said the writer jauntily .
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