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Kim

CHAPTER 7
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That is good, if it allows me to return to the Road again.

This clothing grows no easier by wear.' When they came to the crowded Lucknow station there was no sign of the lama.

He swallowed his disappointment, while the Colonel bundled him into a ticca-gharri with his neat belongings and despatched him alone to St Xavier's.
'I do not say farewell, because we shall meet again,' he cried.

'Again, and many times, if thou art one of good spirit.

But thou art not yet tried.' 'Not when I brought thee'-- Kim actually dared to use the turn of equals--'a white stallion's pedigree that night ?' 'Much is gained by forgetting, little brother,' said the Colonel, with a look that pierced through Kim's shoulder-blades as he scuttled into the carriage.
It took him nearly five minutes to recover.


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