` Not I , Holy One , ' said Kim , reslinging the bountiful provision on his shoulders . ` In my mind -- behind my eyes -- I have tried to picture such an one altogether freed from the Wheel -- desiring nothing , causing nothing -- a nun , as it were . ' ` And , O imp ? ' The lama almost laughed aloud . ' I can not make the picture . ' ` Nor I . But there are many , many millions of lives before her . She will get wisdom a little , it may be , in each one . ' ` And will she forget how to make stews with saffron upon that road ? ' ` Thy mind is set on things unworthy . But she has skill . I am refreshed all over . When we reach the lower hills I shall be yet stronger . The hakim spoke truly to me this morn when he said a breath from the snows blows away twenty years from the life of a man . We will go up into the Hills -- the high hills -- up to the sound of snow-waters and the sound of the trees -- for a little while . The hakim said that at any time we may return to the Plains , for we do no more than skirt the pleasant places . The hakim is full of learning ; but he is in no way proud . I spoke to him -- when thou wast talking to the Sahiba -- of a certain dizziness that lays hold upon the back of my neck in the night , and he said it rose from excessive heat -- to be cured by cool air . Upon consideration , I marvelled that I had not thought of such a simple remedy . ' ` Didst thou tell him of thy Search ? '
said XXXXX , a little jealously .
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