It is against the Rule to sit on a bench , ' said the lama . ` Moreover , it cramps me . ' ' I say , ' began the money-lender , pursing his lips , ` that there is not one rule of right living which these te-rains do not cause us to break . We sit , for example , side by side with all castes and peoples . ' ` Yea , and with most outrageously shameless ones , ' said the wife , scowling at the Amritzar girl making eyes at the young sepoy . ' I said we might have gone by cart along the road , ' said the husband , ` and thus have saved some money . ' ` Yes -- and spent twice over what we saved on food by the way . That was talked out ten thousand times . ' ` Ay , by ten thousand tongues , ' grunted he . ` The Gods help us poor women if we may not speak . Oho ! He is of that sort which may not look at or reply to a woman . ' For the lama , constrained by his Rule , took not the faintest notice of her . ` And his disciple is like him ? ' ` Nay , mother , ' said Kim most promptly . ` Not when the woman is well-looking and above all charitable to the hungry . ' ' A beggar 's answer , ' said the Sikh , laughing . ` Thou hast brought it on thyself , sister ! ' Kim 's hands were crooked in supplication . ` And whither goest thou ? '
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