I am jolly glad to see you again . ' Kim 's hand clenched about the pipe-stem . Anywhere on the open road , perhaps , he would not have been astonished ; but here , in this quiet backwater of life , he was not prepared for Hurree Babu . It annoyed him , too , that he had been hoodwinked . ` Ah ha ! I told you at Lucknow -- resurgam -- I shall rise again and you shall not know me . How much did you bet -- eh ? ' He chewed leisurely upon a few cardamom seeds , but he breathed uneasily . ` But why come here , Babuji ? ' ` Ah ! Thatt is the question , as Shakespeare hath it . I come to congratulate you on your extraordinary effeecient performance at Delhi . Oah ! I tell you we are all proud of you . It was verree neat and handy . Our mutual friend , he is old friend of mine . He has been in some dam ' - tight places . Now he will be in some more . He told me ; I tell Mr Lurgan ; and he is pleased you graduate so nicely . All the Department is pleased . '
For the first time in his life , XXXXX thrilled to the clean pride -LRB- it can be a deadly pitfall , none the less -RRB- of Departmental praise -- ensnaring praise from an equal of work appreciated by fellow-workers .
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