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weight lying upon my mind of having once prepared 

 a very able legal memorandum in support of the 

 claims of Jiinaghar. It had too much an appearance 

 as if the whole force horse and foot, past, present, 

 and to come, with the arrears of half a century and 

 the future proceeds to all eternity had at last been 

 brought into Jaitpore in my single person. 



It can easily be understood, then, that I was not 

 in a fair way of being introduced to the vie intime of 

 Kathi life. Xo one came to see me, though I arrived 

 in the forenoon ; and such neglect means a good deal 

 in native states of India, whatever it may mean in 

 the West, where it causes no inconvenience and is 

 not always a bad thing. I wandered through the 

 streets, and no one spoke to me, or even looked at 

 me except occasionally to scowl at me. I went down 

 to the river, the Bhadur, and occupied myself (as an 

 ethnologist) with observing the well-formed Kathi 

 women who came down for water, but they were 

 ware of the stranger and adjusted their robes lajuk- 

 adhani, "to keep off shame." The streets were ex- 

 ceedingly dusty and tiresome ; some of the small 

 shopkeepers ostentatiously barred their doors in my 

 face, as if the whole imaginary body of horse and 

 foot were going to fall upon their premises to ravage 

 them ; and I sauntered back to my premises feeling 

 very much tired and not a little amused. 



But I have great faith in the mens conscia recti; 

 and that faith, with its corresponding demeanour, 



