` To heal the sick is to acquire merit ; but first one gets knowledge . That was wisely done , O Friend of all the World . ' ' I was made wise by thee , Holy One , ' said Kim , forgetting the little play just ended ; forgetting St Xavier 's ; forgetting his white blood ; forgetting even the Great Game as he stooped , Mohammedan-fashion , to touch his master 's feet in the dust of the Jain temple . ` My teaching I owe to thee . I have eaten thy bread three years . My time is finished . I am loosed from the schools . I come to thee . ' ` Herein is my reward . Enter ! Enter ! And is all well ? ' They passed to the inner court , where the afternoon sun sloped golden across . ` Stand that I may see . So ! ' He peered critically . ` It is no longer a child , but a man , ripened in wisdom , walking as a physician . I did well -- I did well when I gave thee up to the armed men on that black night . Dost thou remember our first day under Zam-Zammah ? ' ` Ay , ' said Kim .
` Dost thou XXXXX when I leapt off the carriage the first day I went to -- ' ` The Gates of Learning ?
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