insooth

Updated: May 28, 2025

Some feared him as one that contemplated the imposition of a new tax; others viewed him askance as a doctor from the Hospital despatched by higher authority to put an end to the ceremony; and yet others, the larger number insooth, deemed that here at last was a Saheb who had found physic a failure and had learned that the Mother alone has power to allay grievous sickness.

S. M. (Stephen Meredyth) Edwardes - By-Ways of Bombay