It is too easy . ' ` Pride -- all pride , my friend . ' ` Now what the deuce is good of Chandernagore being so close to Calcutta and all , ' said Hurree , snoring open-mouthed on the sodden moss , ` if I can not understand their French ? They talk so particularly fast ! It would have been much better to cut their beastly throats . ' When he presented himself again he was racked with a headache -- penitent , and volubly afraid that in his drunkenness he might have been indiscreet . He loved the British Government -- it was the source of all prosperity and honour , and his master at Rampur held the very same opinion . Upon this the men began to deride him and to quote past words , till step by step , with deprecating smirks , oily grins , and leers of infinite cunning , the poor Babu was beaten out of his defences and forced to speak -- truth . When Lurgan was told the tale later , he mourned aloud that he could not have been in the place of the stubborn , inattentive coolies , who with grass mats over their heads and the raindrops puddling in their footprints , waited on the weather . All the Sahibs of their acquaintance -- rough-clad men joyously returning year after year to their chosen gullies -- had servants and cooks and orderlies , very often hillmen . These Sahibs travelled without any retinue . Therefore they were poor Sahibs , and ignorant ; for no Sahib in his senses would follow a Bengali 's advice . But the Bengali , appearing from somewhere , had given them money , and could make shift with their dialect . Used to comprehensive ill-treatment from their own colour , they suspected a trap somewhere , and stood by to run if occasion offered . Then through the new-washed air , steaming with delicious earth-smells , the Babu led the way down the slopes -- walking ahead of the coolies in pride ; walking behind the foreigners in humility . His thoughts were many and various . The least of them would have interested his companions beyond words . But he was an agreeable guide , ever keen to point out the beauties of his royal master 's domain . He peopled the hills with anything thev had a mind to slay -- thar , ibex , or markhor , and bear by Elisha 's allowance . He discoursed of botany and ethnology with unimpeachable inaccuracy , and his store of local legends -- he had been a trusted agent of the State for fifteen years , remember -- was inexhaustible .
` Decidedly this fellow is an original , ' XXXXX the taller of the two foreigners .
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