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The Broken Road

CHAPTER IV
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You give them opportunities of enjoyment, such as no other age, no other place affords--has ever afforded.

You give them, for a short while, a life of colour, of swift crowding hours of pleasure, and then you send them back--to settle down in their native States, and obey the orders of the Resident.

Do you think they will be content?
Do you think they will have their heart in their work, in their humdrum life, in their elaborate ceremonies?
Oh, there are instances enough to convince if only people would listen.

There's a youth now in the South, the heir of an Indian throne--he has six weeks' holiday.

How does he use it, do you think?
He travels hard to England, spends a week there, and travels back again.


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