MAUBIN RIVER
should leave no trace upon the habits of one who has
been there ; that the faculty and practice of entering
and leaving a room by a narrow door in the shortest
possible time should not betray itself in the style and
poise of his figure. And in fact, long after your Chief
MagistrateBhe is sometimes sent here for his sinspSf
long after he has left Maubin behind him on his way
to the stars of the official firmament, or to leisured
retirement in England, he is to be known by his looks,
by his gait, above all by his slick manner of entering
a half-closed door. There is a man now living at the
Bhanchuds, in the opulent ease of the fabled Anglo-
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