said Kim on his elbow , rejoicing . ` What a beast of wonder is a Babu ! And that man walked alone -- if he did walk -- with robbed and angry foreigners ! ' ` Oah , thatt was nothing , after they had done beating me ; but if I lost the papers it was pretty-jolly serious . Mahbub he nearly beat me too , and he went and consorted with the lama no end . I shall stick to ethnological investigations henceforwards . Now good-bye , Mister O'Hara . I can catch 4.25 p.m. to Umballa if I am quick . It will be good times when we all tell thee tale up at Mr Lurgan 's . I shall report you offeecially better . Good-bye , my dear fallow , and when next you are under thee emotions please do not use the Mohammedan terms with the Tibetan dress . ' He shook hands twice -- a Babu to his boot-heels -- and opened the door . With the fall of the sunlight upon his still triumphant face he returned to the humble Dacca quack . ` He robbed them , ' thought Kim , forgetting his own share in the game . ` He tricked them . He lied to them like a Bengali . They give him a chit -LSB- a testimonial -RSB- . He makes them a mock at the risk of his life -- I never would have gone down to them after the pistol-shots -- and then he says he is a fearful man ... And he is a fearful man . I must get into the world again . ' At first his legs bent like bad pipe-stems , and the flood and rush of the sunlit air dazzled him .
He squatted by the white wall , the mind rummaging among the incidents of the long dooli journey , the XXXXX 's weaknesses , and , now that the stimulus of talk was removed , his own self-pity , of which , like the sick , he had great store .
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