Here was a man after his own heart -- a tortuous and indirect person playing a hidden game . Well , if he could be a fool , so could Kim . He showed nothing of his mind when Father Victor , for three long mornings , discoursed to him of an entirely new set of Gods and Godlings -- notably of a Goddess called Mary , who , he gathered , was one with Bibi Miriam of Mahbub Ali 's theology . He betrayed no emotion when , after the lecture , Father Victor dragged him from shop to shop buying articles of outfit , nor when envious drummer-boys kicked him because he was going to a superior school did he complain , but awaited the play of circumstances with an interested soul . Father Victor , good man , took him to the station , put him into an empty second-class next to Colonel Creighton 's first , and bade him farewell with genuine feeling . ` They 'll make a man o ' you , O'Hara , at St Xavier 's -- a white man , an ' , I hope , a good man . They know all about your comin ' , an ' the Colonel will see that ye 're not lost or mislaid anywhere on the road . I 've given you a notion of religious matters , -- at least I hope so , -- and you 'll remember , when they ask you your religion , that you 're a Cath ` lic . Better say Roman Cath ` lic , tho ' I 'm not fond of the word . ' Kim lit a rank cigarette -- he had been careful to buy a stock in the bazar -- and lay down to think . This solitary passage was very different from that joyful down-journey in the third-class with the lama . ` Sahibs get little pleasure of travel , ' he reflected . ` Hai mai ! I go from one place to another as it might be a kickball . It is my Kismet . No man can escape his Kismet . But I am to pray to Bibi Miriam , and I am a Sahib . ' He looked at his boots ruefully . ` No ; I am Kim . This is the great world , and I am only Kim .
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