SCENES IN INDIA. 
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This was accordingly done, and when the poor fellow 
was introduced to the great man, he began to enter- 
tain fears that he was labouring under the odium of 
a base suspicion. The old gentleman commenced by 
questioning him about his birth and parentage. His 
replies at length convinced the inquirer that the 
humble vender of tea was the object for whom he 
had been some time in search. 
It happened that this very gentleman was resid- 
ing at Lucknow at the time of the captain’s marriage 
with the Persian lady, and was in fact the only 
European, besides her husband, with whom she had 
been acquainted. He was moreover present at the 
marriage, and the sole attesting witness. The widow 
had latterly written him several earnest letters from 
Lucknow, imploring him to use his best endeavours 
to recover her boy, of whom she had heard nothing 
for nearly twenty years. Upon receiving an appeal 
so urgent and affecting, the kind-hearted friend did 
his best to discover the lost son, but having no clue 
and finding his efforts end in disappointment, he had 
abandoned all hopes of success, when the resemblance 
of the huckster to the Indian lad, as the former quitted 
his house on the morning of the preceding day, struck 
him so forcibly, that he felt instantly convinced of 
their identity, which his subsequent enquiries con- 
firmed. 
The old gentleman now made the long-neglected 
half-caste, as he was considered to be, acquainted with 
every particular of his birth, informing him that the 
person who brought him to England was his father, 
and that he had a mother in India who was longing 
