` I 'd give a good deal to be able to talk the vernacular . A river that washes away sin ! And how long have you two been looking for it ? ' ` Oh , many days . Now we wish to go away and look for it again . It is not here , you see . ' ' I see , ' said Father Victor gravely . ` But he ca n't go on in that old man 's company . It would be different , Kim , if you were not a soldier 's son . Tell him that the Regiment will take care of you and make you as good a man as your -- as good a man as can be . Tell him that if he believes in miracles he must believe that -- ' ` There is no need to play on his credulity , ' Bennett interrupted . ` I 'm doing no such thing . He must believe that the boy 's coming here -- to his own Regiment -- in search of his Red Bull is in the nature of a miracle . Consider the chances against it , Bennett . This one boy in all India , and our Regiment of all others on the line o ' march for him to meet with ! It 's predestined on the face of it . Yes , tell him it 's Kismet . Kismet , mallum ? -LSB- Do you understand ? -RSB- ' He turned towards the lama , to whom he might as well have talked of Mesopotamia .
` They say , ' -- the old man 's eye lighted at XXXXX 's speech ` they say that the meaning of my horoscope is now accomplished , and that being led back -- though as thou knowest I went out of curiosity -- to these people and their Red Bull I must needs go to a madrissah and be turned into a Sahib .
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