` Is this a face to tempt virtue aside ? ' She withdrew all her veil and stared at him . It was by no means lovely , but as the man gathered up his reins he called it a Moon of Paradise , a Disturber of Integrity , and a few other fantastic epithets which doubled her up with mirth . ` That is a nut-cut -LSB- rogue -RSB- , ' she said . ` All police-constables are nut-cuts ; but the police-wallahs are the worst . Hai , my son , thou hast never learned all that since thou camest from Belait -LSB- Europe -RSB- . Who suckled thee ? ' ' A pahareen -- a hillwoman of Dalhousie , my mother . Keep thy beauty under a shade -- O Dispenser of Delights , ' and he was gone . ` These be the sort ' -- she took a fine judicial tone , and stuffed her mouth with pan -- ` These be the sort to oversee justice . They know the land and the customs of the land . The others , all new from Europe , suckled by white women and learning our tongues from books , are worse than the pestilence . They do harm to Kings . ' Then she told a long , long tale to the world at large , of an ignorant young policeman who had disturbed some small Hill Rajah , a ninth cousin of her own , in the matter of a trivial land-case , winding up with a quotation from a work by no means devotional . Then her mood changed , and she bade one of the escort ask whether the lama would walk alongside and discuss matters of religion . So Kim dropped back into the dust and returned to his sugar-cane . For an hour or more the lama 's tam-o'shanter showed like a moon through the haze ; and , from all he heard , Kim gathered that the old woman wept . One of the Ooryas half apologized for his rudeness overnight , saying that he had never known his mistress of so bland a temper , and he ascribed it to the presence of the strange priest . Personally , he believed in Brahmins , though , like all natives , he was acutely aware of their cunning and their greed . Still , when Brahmins but irritated with begging demands the mother of his master 's wife , and when she sent them away so angry that they cursed the whole retinue -LRB- which was the real reason of the second off-side bullock going lame , and of the pole breaking the night before -RRB- , he was prepared to accept any priest of any other denomination in or out of India .
To this Kim assented with wise nods , and bade the Oorya observe that the lama took no money , and that the cost of his and XXXXX 's food would be repaid a hundred times in the good luck that would attend the caravan henceforward .
Dalhousie Europe Kim Rajah before bullock lama overnight police-wallahs second