And I see thou art a physician . ' ` Yes , that am I -- a scribe , when I am a Sahib , but it is set aside when I come as thy disciple . I have accomplished the years appointed for a Sahib . ' ` As it were a novice ? ' said the lama , nodding his head . ` Art thou freed from the schools ? I would not have thee unripe . ' ' I am all free . In due time I take service under the Government as a scribe -- ' ` Not as a warrior . That is well . ' ` But first I come to wander with thee . Therefore I am here . Who begs for thee , these days ? ' he went on quickly . The ice was thin . ` Very often I beg myself ; but , as thou knowest , I am seldom here , except when I come to look again at my disciple . From one end to another of Hind have I travelled afoot and in the te-rain . A great and a wonderful land ! But here , when I put in , is as though I were in my own Bhotiyal . ' He looked round the little clean cell complacently .
A low cushion gave him a seat , on which he had disposed himself in the cross-legged attitude of the Bodhisat emerging from meditation ; a black teak-wood table , not twenty inches high , XXXXX with copper tea-cups , was before him .
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