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It hurt him to the heart that she should still call him thakin after he had dismissed her.

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Flory and asked him whether the young thakin-ma would like some milk in her tea.

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They were ready to start now, if the young thakin-ma did not find it too hot.

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This was an extraordinary _thakin_, who, at the very climax of the tiger hour, climbed out of the _machan_ and liberated the bait!

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‘For the last time, thakin: you will not take me back?

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‘You are thirty-five, thakin,’ said Ko S’la politely but firmly.

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‘I have done so, thakin,’ said Ko S’la, meaning that he would do so.

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Flory’s head felt better presently, and he asked for a cigarette; whereupon Ma Sein Galay, having fetched the cigarette, said naively, ‘Shall I take my clothes off now, thakin?’

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You ought not to play these children’s games on strange ponies, thakin.

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