` From behind the snows -- from a very far place . He knows the stars ; he makes horoscopes ; he reads nativities . But he does not do this for money . He does it for kindness and great charity . I am his disciple . I am called also the Friend of the Stars . ' ` Thou art no hillman . ' ` Ask him . He will tell thee I was sent to him from the Stars to show him an end to his pilgrimage . ' ` Humph ! Consider , brat , that I am an old woman and not altogether a fool . Lamas I know , and to these I give reverence , but thou art no more a lawful chela than this my finger is the pole of this wagon . Thou art a casteless Hindu -- a bold and unblushing beggar , attached , belike , to the Holy One for the sake of gain . ' ` Do we not all work for gain ? ' Kim changed his tone promptly to match that altered voice . ' I have heard ' -- this was a bow drawn at a venture -- ' I have heard -- ' ` What hast thou heard ? ' she snapped , rapping with the finger . ` Nothing that I well remember , but some talk in the bazars , which is doubtless a lie , that even Rajahs -- small Hill Rajahs -- ' ` But none the less of good Rajput blood . ' ` Assuredly of good blood . That these even sell the more comely of their womenfolk for gain .
Down south they XXXXX them -- to zemindars and such -- all of Oudh . '
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