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Kim

CHAPTER 11
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E, without a word, slipped off his turban and shook down his long black hair.
'That is my food--priest,' the jat growled.
'A buffalo in the temple! Hast thou dared to look even thus far ?' said Kim.

'I must do mysteries before fools; but have a care for thine eyes.

Is there a film before them already?
I save the babe, and for return thou--oh, shameless!' The man flinched at the direct gaze, for Kim was wholly in earnest.
'Shall I curse thee, or shall I--' He picked up the outer cloth of the bundle and threw it over the bowed head.

'Dare so much as to think a wish to see, and--and--even I cannot save thee.

Sit! Be dumb!' 'I am blind--dumb.


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