Do you know what that means ? `` Decidedly it is we who can deal with Orientals ! '' Oh , you have done well . ' They fell to it in several tongues , and Hurree smiled . Kim was with the kiltas , and in the kiltas lay eight months of good diplomacy . There was no means of communicating with the boy , but he could be trusted . For the rest , Hurree could so stage-manage the journey through the hills that Hilas , Bunar , and four hundred miles of hill-roads should tell the tale for a generation . Men who can not control their own coolies are little respected in the Hills , and the hillman has a very keen sense of humour . ` If I had done it myself , ' thought Hurree , ` it would not have been better ; and , by Jove , now I think of it , of course I arranged it myself . How quick I have been ! Just when I ran downhill I thought it ! Thee outrage was accidental , but onlee me could have worked it -- ah -- for all it was dam ' - well worth . Consider the moral effect upon these ignorant peoples ! No treaties -- no papers -- no written documents at all -- and me to interpret for them . How I shall laugh with the Colonel ! I wish I had their papers also : but you can not occupy two places in space simultaneously . Thatt is axiomatic . ' Chapter 14 My brother kneels -LRB- so saith Kabir -RRB- To stone and brass in heathen wise , But in my brother 's voice I hear My own unanswered agonies . His God is as his Fates assign -- His prayer is all the world 's -- and mine . The Prayer .
At moonrise the cautious XXXXX got under way .
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