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The Moonstone

CHAPTER X
17/27

All you have seen to-night is a very bad and clumsy imitation of it.

Unless, after long experience, I am utterly mistaken, those men are high-caste Brahmins.

I charged them with being disguised, and you saw how it told on them, clever as the Hindoo people are in concealing their feelings.

There is a mystery about their conduct that I can't explain.
They have doubly sacrificed their caste--first, in crossing the sea; secondly, in disguising themselves as jugglers.

In the land they live in that is a tremendous sacrifice to make.


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