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 Englishman threw up his hand with the gesture of a man hit at sword-play . She laughed and nodded . ` 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 .
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