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race stand. Meeting me the nobleman deigned to ask what was the hint-he meant 'hit' no doubt-in my remark about some Hindu nobleman more timid than straight-forward" And on my explaining to him, as politely as I could, what was meant, he showed by his manner and words that he was very much annoyed and would "cut" me hereafter. This did not prevent me from enjoying myself on the day, nor does it cause me a regret now. But I wish to tell the nobleman what I had no time to tell on Thursday, that if he thought that because I showed up the men in power, I was a partisan, and could not notice anything objectionable in, or done by those whose cause I feel called upon to advocate, he was very much mistaken, I have ever looked at men and measures from the point of view of the people: and if any one thinks that simply because I happen to agree with him, I am for him and must flatter him, he errs, I cannot say anything more.
The passage that your London correspondent quotes from the narrative relating the experiences of an English traveller in the columns of the San Francisco Chronicle, in his last letter, las surprised us and amused us here not a title. It is one tissue of inventions from beginning to end. The description of the Nizam's person and the splendour and costliness of his dress and surroundings is all a la Madame Potter-and you know that she drew the long bow as much when she spoke of the Nizam as when she talked about how her "pathetic recital" had brought tears to the eyes of ignorant "princessess." A Nizam in a "robe of snow white silk" with buttons of "immense pearls set in dia- monds," glistening with "hundreds of jewels" with "ropes of pearls" about his neck and arms &c. -belongs to a period in the history of Hyderabad long gone by. And to speak of such "a presence" is surely to take one back to semi-savage times in Hyderabad or "the fabulous times of the Arabian Night," and not to speak of one who moves and has his being in the Hyderabad of to-day. I do not think it can be said that "he lives for pleasure alone." Though his giving up so much time to the "Iron man"
