One saw in a moment that one was among gentlemen and ladies.

The dress of many of the men was nought but a scarf wrapped round the loins; that of most of the women nought but the longer scarf which the Hindoo woman contrives to arrange in a most graceful, as well as a perfectly modest covering, even for her feet and head.

These garments, and perhaps a brass pot, were probably all the worldly goods of most of them just then.

But every attitude, gesture, tone, was full of grace; of ease, courtesy, self-restraint, dignity--of that 'sweetness and light,' at least in externals, which Mr.Matthew Arnold desiderates.

I am well aware that these people are not perfect; that, like most heathen folk and some Christian, their morals are by no means spotless, their passions by no means trampled out.