I shall instruct K., I think, to ask him a few questions, one of which will be whether he is willing to take a position in another part of the world." Of course, I am only snatching such sentences as convey the main ideas, without their fuller development, which would risk indicating the persons referred to.
Will it be believed that, whilst this octogenarian was toiling in the heat to prepare if he could a brighter future for some of the poor, a syndicate of slanderers in London, some well educated, some of the Trafalgar Square bawler type, were seeking to bless "the British public" by enlightening them as to his selfish and foolish designs upon them?
According to their theories his every new scheme was only brought forth to turn aside attention from his entire failure, and ensure a continuous flow of money into his coffers! Perhaps, the best feature of all about his "dreams" was that they never became less cheery for all that, and their continuously increasing infection of the world, despite every attack.
The General writes, after his great Meeting with some of our native comrades as reported in connexion with his final Congress:-- "I have been much occupied, as I have already told you I expected to be, with the _Native Question_; and I am satisfied that one of the greatest things ever done in the history of the world can be done here, and I am determined to make an attempt to do it.
"I do not say that our chance is _greater_ than it is in India--though I am not sure whether it does not equal it in many ways.

Anyway, it appears to me that it is open to us to realise a mighty success.".