` Had the Holy One come alone , I should have received him otherwise ; but with this rogue , who can be too careful ? ' ` Maharanee , ' said Kim , choosing as always the amplest title , ` is it my fault that none other than a Sahib -- a polis-Sahib -- called the Maharanee whose face he -- ' ` Chutt ! That was on the pilgrimage . When we travel -- thou knowest the proverb . ' ` Called the Maharanee a Breaker of Hearts and a Dispenser of Delights ? ' ` To remember that ! It was true . So he did . That was in the time of the bloom of my beauty . ' She chuckled like a contented parrot above the sugar lump . ` Now tell me of thy goings and comings -- as much as may be without shame . How many maids , and whose wives , hang upon thine eyelashes ? Ye hail from Benares ? I would have gone there again this year , but my daughter -- we have only two sons . Phaii ! Such is the effect of these low plains . Now in Kulu men are elephants . But I would ask thy Holy One -- stand aside , rogue -- a charm against most lamentable windy colics that in mango-time overtake my daughter 's eldest . Two years back he gave me a powerful spell . ' ` Oh , Holy One ! '
said XXXXX , bubbling with mirth at the lama 's rueful face .
Benares Chutt Holy Kim Kulu Maharanee Phaii Sahib colics polis-Sahib