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_ The darned old cuss.
_Ramgolam._ Seeing him often convey his hand to his bosom, I ascribed his
unparalleled excellence to the possession of some sovereign talisman.
(Tickell managed to translate this sentence all but the word talisman,
which he rendered--with all a translator's caution--"article.") Finding
him about to depart to the regions of the blessed, where such auxiliaries
are not needed, and being eager to emulate his perfections here below, I
came softly to the place where he lay----
_Tickell._ When I saw him going to slip his cable, I wanted to be as good
a fellow as he is, so I crept alongside----
_Ramgolam._ And gently, and without force, made myself proprietor of the
amulet and inheritor of a good man's qualities----
_Tickell._ And quietly boned the article, and the captain's virtues. I
don't know what the beggar means.
_Ramgolam._ Then a traitor with a dark skin, but darker soul----
_Tickell._ Then another black-hearted nigger----
_Ramgolam._ Came furiously and misappropriated the charm thus piously
obtained----
_Tickell._ Ran in and stole it from me.


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