I have a desire to hear of that same madrissah . ' Mahbub stuffed himself with great boluses of spiced mutton fried in fat with cabbage and golden-brown onions . ` But tell me first , altogether and truthfully , the manner of thy escape . For , O Friend of all the World , ' -- he loosed his cracking belt -- ' I do not think it is often that a Sahib and the son of a Sahib runs away from there . ' ` How should they ? They do not know the land . It was nothing , ' said Kim , and began his tale . When he came to the disguisement and the interview with the girl in the bazar , Mahbub Ali 's gravity went from him . He laughed aloud and beat his hand on his thigh . ` Shabash ! Shabash ! Oh , well done , little one ! What will the healer of turquoises say to this ? Now , slowly , let us hear what befell afterwards -- step by step , omitting nothing . ' Step by step then , Kim told his adventures between coughs as the full-flavoured tobacco caught his lungs . ' I said , ' growled Mahbub Ali to himself , ' I said it was the pony breaking out to play polo . The fruit is ripe already -- except that he must learn his distances and his pacings , and his rods and his compasses . Listen now . I have turned aside the Colonel 's whip from thy skin , and that is no small service . ' ` True . '
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