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Kim

CHAPTER 15
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Ha! I went ten thousand thousand in the spirit.

How, we are all lapped and swathed and swaddled in these senseless things.' He looked at his thin blue-veined hand that found the beads so heavy.
'Chela, hast thou never a wish to leave me ?' Kim thought of the oilskin packet and the books in the food-bag.

If someone duly authorized would only take delivery of them the Great Game might play itself for aught he then cared.

He was tired and hot in his head, and a cough that came from the stomach worried him.
'No.' he said almost sternly.

'I am not a dog or a snake to bite when I have learned to love.' 'Thou art too tender towards me.' 'Not that either.


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