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It was a place of miracles, too, for there went in at twilight a Mohammedan horseboy, and there came out an hour later a Eurasian lad the Lucknow girl's dye was of the best in badly-fitting shop-clothes. 'I have spoken with Creighton Sahib, quoth Mahbub Ali, 'and a second time has the Hand of Friendship averted the Whip of Calamity.
There was something that appealed to the imagination in his fine antagonism to the crowd on the one hand, was the brilliant young nobleman, picturesquely alone; on the other, the ugly, inexpressive multitude, dressed inelegantly in shop-clothes, under-educated, under-fed, envious, base, and with a wicked disinclination for work and a wicked appetite for the good things it could so rarely get.
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