'Have you no consideration for our loss?
The baggage! The baggage!' He could hear the speaker literally dancing on the grass.

'Everything we bore! Everything we have secured! Our gains! Eight months' work! Do you know what that means?
"Decidedly it is we who can deal with Orientals!" Oh, you have done well.' They fell to it in several tongues, and Hurree smiled.

Kim was with the kiltas, and in the kiltas lay eight months of good diplomacy.

There was no means of communicating with the boy, but he could be trusted.
For the rest, Hurree could so stage-manage the journey through the hills that Hilas, Bunar, and four hundred miles of hill-roads should tell the tale for a generation.

Men who cannot control their own coolies are little respected in the Hills, and the hillman has a very keen sense of humour.
'If I had done it myself,' thought Hurree, 'it would not have been better; and, by Jove, now I think of it, of course I arranged it myself.