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staggered into the house, and fell prostrate upon the 
floor, which his shrivelled hands had just smeared with 
fresh cow-dung, the great medium of purification among 
the Hindoos. The Englishman raised him, seated 
him upon an old piece of hair-cloth which lay upon 
the floor, supporting his back against the wall. For 
some time it appeared as if the tongue had become 
paralysed : the saliva oozed from the corners of his 
mouth, the lips quivered, and the teeth occasionally 
gnashed slightly against each other, but he spoke not. 
After a while he said faintly, and with an expression 
of extreme anxiety, “ Go ! go !” 
The soldier retired a short distance, and impati- 
ently awaited the aged devotee’s recovery. After an 
interval of some length, the latter spoke in an accent 
of calm but rather severe reproof, upbraiding the sol- 
dier with his intrusion upon the sacred privacy of a 
Brahmin. The intruder told him a pitiful story of 
oppression, that he had been forced to quit his regiment 
in consequence of the tyranny of his commanding offi- 
cer, imploring the Hindoo to direct him on his way to 
Delhi, where he thought he should be secure from pur- 
suit for the moment. The old Brahmin was some- 
what subdued by the earnestness of this appeal, and 
soon grew more familiarised to the stranger’s presence. 
It appeared from his own statement that he was a 
Yogue or Hindoo saint, whose character for sanctity 
was celebrated throughout the neighbouring country. 
He was continually visited as an object of deserved 
veneration by the ignorant and besotted inhabitants 
of the neighbouring hamlets, who brought him sup- 
plies of food from their own homely store, and which. 
