When I declined, one of them who had already assumed a rather more truculent tone came forward and pressed me, saying that if I would accompany them they would not mind even sacrificing a white goat.

There was a general shout of laughter at what was evidently regarded by the others as a huge joke.

I turned away, though I did not then understand its grim humour, as I do now.
The blind hatred of everything English with which the younger generation is so largely saturated can only, in most cases, be the result of the teachings that have impressed upon them the existence of a fundamental antagonism between Hindu ideals and ours.

Like the wretched Kanhere at Nasik, they would have to admit that they never suffered injustice themselves nor knew of any one who had.

A great many have never come into contact with a single Englishman, and their ignorance even of the system of government under which they live is profound.