A pahareen -- a hillwoman of Dalhousie , my mother . Keep thy beauty under a shade -- O Dispenser of Delights , ' and he was gone . ` These be the sort ' -- she took a fine judicial tone , and stuffed her mouth with pan -- ` These be the sort to oversee justice . They know the land and the customs of the land . The others , all new from Europe , suckled by white women and learning our tongues from books , are worse than the pestilence . They do harm to Kings . ' Then she told a long , long tale to the world at large , of an ignorant young policeman who had disturbed some small Hill Rajah , a ninth cousin of her own , in the matter of a trivial land-case , winding up with a quotation from a work by no means devotional . Then her mood changed , and she bade one of the escort ask whether the lama would walk alongside and discuss matters of religion . So Kim dropped back into the dust and returned to his sugar-cane . For an hour or more the lama 's tam-o'shanter showed like a moon through the haze ; and , from all he heard , Kim gathered that the old woman wept . One of the Ooryas half apologized for his rudeness overnight , saying that he had never known his mistress of so bland a temper , and he ascribed it to the presence of the strange priest . Personally , he believed in Brahmins , though , like all natives , he was acutely aware of their cunning and their greed . Still , when Brahmins but irritated with begging demands the mother of his master 's wife , and when she sent them away so angry that they cursed the whole retinue -LRB- which was the real reason of the second off-side bullock going lame , and of the pole breaking the night before -RRB- , he was prepared to accept any priest of any other denomination in or out of India . To this Kim assented with wise nods , and bade the Oorya observe that the lama took no money , and that the cost of his and Kim 's food would be repaid a hundred times in the good luck that would attend the caravan henceforward . He also told stories of Lahore city , and sang a song or two which made the escort laugh . As a town-mouse well acquainted with the latest songs by the most fashionable composers -- they are women for the most part -- Kim had a distinct advantage over men from a little fruit-village behind Saharunpore , but he let that advantage be inferred . At noon they turned aside to eat , and the meal was good , plentiful , and well-served on plates of clean leaves , in decency , out of drift of the dust . They gave the scraps to certain beggars , that all requirements might be fulfilled , and sat down to a long , luxurious smoke . The old lady had retreated behind her curtains , but mixed most freely in the talk , her servants arguing with and contradicting her as servants do throughout the East . She compared the cool and the pines of the Kangra and Kulu hills with the dust and the mangoes of the South ; she told a tale of some old local Gods at the edge of her husband 's territory ; she roundly abused the tobacco which she was then smoking , reviled all Brahmins , and speculated without reserve on the coming of many grandsons .
Chapter 5 Here come I to my own again Fed , forgiven , and XXXXX again Claimed by bone of my bone again , And sib to flesh of my flesh !
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