KIM
By Rudyard Kipling
Author of”
Plain
Tales from the Hills,” “The Seven Seas,” “The Jungle Books,” “The Day’s
Work,” “Stalky & Co.,” etc.
NEW YORK
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY 1901
Copyright 1900, 1901
KIM
LIST
OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Kim
‘Beggars a plenty have I met, and
holy men to boot, but never such a yogi nor such a
disciple.’
He sat long-legged on the little
beast, with the big sword at his side — hand dropped on the pommel — staring fiercely over the flat lands.
The lama and Kim walked a little to
one side; Kim chewing his stick of sugar-cane, and making way for no one under the status of a priest.
‘First I will take my pay,’ the
letter-writer said.
‘Pathans are not faithless—except in
horseflesh.’
‘They are all most holy and—most greedy .
. . I have walked the pillars and trodden the temples till my feet are flayed, and the child is no whit
better.’
Full-fleshed, heavy-haunched,
bull-necked, and deep-voiced.
‘I am the woman of Shamlegh.’
He crossed his hands on his lap and
smiled, as a man who has won
Salvation for himself and his beloved. |
