[Kim by Rudyard Kipling]@TWC D-Link bookKim CHAPTER 7 24/45
Let me see thee go ...
Dost thou love me? Then go, or my heart cracks ...
I will come again.
Surely I will come again. The lama watched the ticca-gharri rumble into the compound, and strode off, snuffing between each long stride. 'The Gates of Learning' shut with a clang. The country born and bred boy has his own manners and customs, which do not resemble those of any other land; and his teachers approach him by roads which an English master would not understand.
Therefore, you would scarcely be interested in Kim's experiences as a St Xavier's boy among two or three hundred precocious youths, most of whom had never seen the sea.
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