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[…] he ran to the bazar, and found the young letter-writer to whom he owed a stamp.
‘Now I pay,’ said Kim royally, ‘and now I need another letter to be written.’
‘Mahbub Ali is in Umballa,’ said the writer jauntily.
He was, by virtue of his office, a bureau […]
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‘I tell you, I am fearful man, but, somehow or other, the more fearful I am the more dam’-tight places I get into. So I was glad you came with me to Chini, and I am glad Mahbub was close by. The old lady she is sometimes very rude to me and my […]
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Very many Sahibs travel along the Kalka road; and, as Mahbub Ali says,
every young Sahib must needs esteem himself a judge of a horse,
and, though he be over head in debt to the money-lender, must make as if to buy.
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