[Kim by Rudyard Kipling]@TWC D-Link bookKim CHAPTER 15 62/77
I aided him in his.
Just is the Wheel, O horse-seller from the North. Let him be a teacher; let him be a scribe--what matter? He will have attained Freedom at the end.
The rest is illusion.' 'What matter? When I must have him with me beyond Balkh in six months! I come up with ten lame horses and three strong-backed men--thanks to that chicken of a Babu--to break a sick boy by force out of an old trot's house.
It seems that I stand by while a young Sahib is hoisted into Allah knows what of an idolater's Heaven by means of old Red Hat. And I am reckoned something of a player of the Game myself! But the madman is fond of the boy; and I must be very reasonably mad too.' 'What is the prayer ?' said the lama, as the rough Pushtu rumbled into the red beard. 'No matter at all; but now I understand that the boy, sure of Paradise, can yet enter Government service, my mind is easier.
I must get to my horses.
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