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Havelaar had already noticed the Governor-disease in so many patients—and often , for there are analogous Resident-Controller- and Supernumerary-diseases, standing to the former in the same relation as measles to smallpox; and, finally, he himself had suffered from this class of disease!—already so frequently had he noticed all this that the accompanying symptoms were pretty well known to him. He had found the then Governor-General less dizzy in the first stages of the indisposition than most of the others, and thought he might conclude from this that the further course of the illness would probably also take another direction.

It was for this reason that he feared to be the stronger when in the end he would have to stand up as defender of the rights of the inhabitants of Lebak.