39 A Sportswoman in India 



my high sense of gratitude for all past favours. Indeed 

 you have always evinced towards me such a merciful 

 regard in the exercise of that authority which God 

 has rested in you, that I feel quite unable to repay it 

 by any other means than by a mere grateful recollection 

 of those days I passed under you as so many brightest 

 sparks of my life. If I may speak out candidly I can 

 assure you with confidence and without fear of being 

 charged with flattery, that I have chanced to see very 

 few gentlemen in my life so good in heart, so sound 

 in judgment, so full in knowledge, and above all so 

 exemplary in manners as your noble self, qualities very 

 rarely met with in men of high ranks. 



" When you last conducted the Revenue Settlement, 

 I had a beautiful opportunity of testing all these praise- 

 worthy qualities in you, and whenever I came in contact 

 with you in the course of my duties, it was always 

 my secret pleasure to mark the masterly grace and 

 facility with which you responded to the callings of 

 your office. 



" Such abilities combined with various other singular 

 accomplishments as you possess, could not fail to 

 astonish me and heighten the admiration of a servant 

 of my insignificant stamp. 



u Allowing for my limited experience of the political 

 part of the world, I conceive that I am not far incorrect 

 in supposing that if Nature ever stored all the high 

 gifts of mankind in the formation of one person, it 

 was undoubtedly in you that I found them to exist in 

 their perfection. Such being my unfeigned impression, 



