My time is finished . I am loosed from the schools . I come to thee . ' ` Herein is my reward . Enter ! Enter ! And is all well ? ' They passed to the inner court , where the afternoon sun sloped golden across . ` Stand that I may see . So ! ' He peered critically . ` It is no longer a child , but a man , ripened in wisdom , walking as a physician . I did well -- I did well when I gave thee up to the armed men on that black night . Dost thou remember our first day under Zam-Zammah ? ' ` Ay , ' said Kim . ` Dost thou remember when I leapt off the carriage the first day I went to -- ' ` The Gates of Learning ? Truly . And the day that we ate the cakes together at the back of the river by Nucklao . Aha ! Many times hast thou begged for me , but that day I begged for thee . '
` Good reason , ' quoth XXXXX . '
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