` Well done , indeed ? It is a shame and a scandal that a poor woman may not go to make prayer to her Gods except she be jostled and insulted by all the refuse of Hindustan -- that she must eat gali -LSB- abuse -RSB- as men eat ghi . But I have yet a wag left to my tongue -- a word or two well spoken that serves the occasion . And still am I without my tobacco ! Who is the one-eyed and luckless son of shame that has not yet prepared my pipe ? ' It was hastily thrust in by a hillman , and a trickle of thick smoke from each corner of the curtains showed that peace was restored . If Kim had walked proudly the day before , disciple of a holy man , today he paced with tenfold pride in the train of a semi-royal procession , with a recognized place under the patronage of an old lady of charming manners and infinite resource . The escort , their heads tied up native-fashion , fell in on either side the cart , shuffling enormous clouds of dust . The lama and Kim walked a little to one side ; Kim chewing his stick of sugarcane , and making way for no one under the status of a priest . They could hear the old lady 's tongue clack as steadily as a rice-husker . She bade the escort tell her what was going on on the road ; and so soon as they were clear of the parao she flung back the curtains and peered out , her veil a third across her face . Her men did not eye her directly when she addressed them , and thus the proprieties were more or less observed . A dark , sallowish District Superintendent of Police , faultlessly uniformed , an Englishman , trotted by on a tired horse , and , seeing from her retinue what manner of person she was , chaffed her . ' O mother , ' he cried , ` do they do this in the zenanas ? Suppose an Englishman came by and saw that thou hast no nose ? ' ` What ? ' she shrilled back . ` Thine own mother has no nose ? Why say so , then , on the open road ? ' It was a fair counter .
The XXXXX threw up his hand with the gesture of a man hit at sword-play .
Englishman Kim clack ghi lama left parao proprieties rice-husker sugarcane