I know . He has been running among the women . Look at his eyes -- hollow and sunk -- and the Betraying Line from the nose down ! He has been sifted out ! Fie ! Fie ! And a priest , too ! ' Kim looked up , over-weary to smile , shaking his head in denial . ` Do not jest , ' said the lama . ` That time is done . We are here upon great matters . A sickness of soul took me in the Hills , and him a sickness of the body . Since then I have lived upon his strength -- eating him . ' ` Children together -- young and old , ' she sniffed , but forbore to make any new jokes . ` May this present hospitality restore ye ! Hold awhile and I will come to gossip of the high good Hills . ' At evening time -- her son-in-law was returned , so she did not need to go on inspection round the farm -- she won to the meat of the matter , explained low-voicedly by the lama . The two old heads nodded wisely together . Kim had reeled to a room with a cot in it , and was dozing soddenly . The lama had forbidden him to set blankets or get food . '
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