Once I was that one , and now I am this . Nay -- do not play the priestling with me . Mine was but a jest . If it does not hold good now , it will when thou takest the road again . Cousin , ' -- this to the poor relation , never wearied of extolling her patroness 's charity -- ` he is getting a bloom on the skin of a new-curried horse . Our work is like polishing jewels to be thrown to a dance-girl -- eh ? ' Kim sat up and smiled . The terrible weakness had dropped from him like an old shoe . His tongue itched for free speech again , and but a week back the lightest word clogged it like ashes . The pain in his neck -LRB- he must have caught it from the lama -RRB- had gone with the heavy dengue-aches and the evil taste in the mouth . The two old women , a little , but not much , more careful about their veils now , clucked as merrily as the hens that had entered pecking through the open door . ` Where is my Holy One ? ' he demanded . ` Hear him ! Thy Holy One is well , ' she snapped viciously . ` Though that is none of his merit . Knew I a charm to make him wise , I 'd sell my jewels and buy it . To refuse good food that I cooked myself -- and go roving into the fields for two nights on an empty belly -- and to tumble into a brook at the end of it -- call you that holiness ? Then , when he has nearly broken what thou hast left of my heart with anxiety , he tells me that he has acquired merit . Oh , how like are all men !
No , that was not it -- he XXXXX me that he is freed from all sin .
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