He couldn't wait satisfactorily at table--a prime defect, for if you haven't your own servant in an Indian hotel you are likely to have a slow time of it and go away hungry.

We couldn't understand his English; he couldn't understand ours; and when we found that he couldn't understand his own, it seemed time for us to part.

I had to discharge him; there was no help for it.

But I did it as kindly as I could, and as gently.

We must part, said I, but I hoped we should meet again in a better world.