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358 salary of 80 rupees, as the reader is already aware. He took six months' leave of absence, and engaged himself in superintending the management of the Depository. These six months he applied himself closely and diligently in examining and clearing the accounts, and after much efforts succeeded in so regulating method and order in every respect, that the business soon prospered, and a glance at the accounts would at once show the state of affairs. Vidyasagar's father was so pleased with Raj Krishna's management that he requested the latter to resign his office in the Fort William College and employ himself permanently as Superintendent of the Depository. Vidyasagar also urged him to it. Accordingly Raj Krishna was permanently appointed as Manager of the Sanskrit Press Depository on a pay of 150 rupees a month. The Depository soon rose to be a very prosperous and profitable business. But Vidyasagar was by nature excessively charitable, and the income from this business could not meet all the demands of his charity. As a matter of consequence, he had to meet them by loans, and slowly his embarrassments grew so heavy, that he was ultimately obliged to dispose of this profitable business, of which hereafter.

We will try to notice here, in passing one or two instances of Vidyasagar's gratefulness and benevolence, and the ungratefulness of the world. The reader has already had some inkling of Vidyasagar's