If it is our fate to find those things we shall find them--thou, thy River; and I, my Bull, and the Strong Pillars and some other matters that I forget.' 'It is not pillars but a Wheel from which I would be free,' said the lama.
'That is all one.

Perhaps they will make me a king,' said Kim, serenely prepared for anything.
'I will teach thee other and better desires upon the road,' the lama replied in the voice of authority.

'Let us go to Benares.' 'Not by night.

Thieves are abroad.

Wait till the day.' 'But there is no place to sleep.' The old man was used to the order of his monastery, and though he slept on the ground, as the Rule decrees, preferred a decency in these things.
'We shall get good lodging at the Kashmir Serai,' said Kim, laughing at his perplexity.