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Kim

CHAPTER 9
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I keep such things because my friends the Rajahs like them.

That one is broken, but it was cheap at the price.

Yes, my friends, the Kings, are very fond of toys--and so am I sometimes.' Kim looked him over out of the corners of his eyes.

He was a Sahib in that he wore Sahib's clothes; the accent of his Urdu, the intonation of his English, showed that he was anything but a Sahib.

He seemed to understand what moved in Kim's mind ere the boy opened his mouth, and he took no pains to explain himself as did Father Victor or the Lucknow masters.


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