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about how I spoke, dressed, walked and ate. My mother waa nob more solicitous aboub ma than Gokhale. There was, so far as I am aware, no reserve befcween us. Ib was really a case of love at first sight, and ifc stood the severest strain in 1913. Ha seemed to me all I wanted as a political worker pure aa crystal, gentle as a lamb, brave as a lion and chivalrous to a fault. It does not mat, tor to me that he may not have been any of these things. Ib waa enough for mo that I oould discover no fault in him to cavil at. He was aud remains for me the most perfect man on tha political fiald. Not therefore*' fcbat we had no differences. We differed oven in 1901 in our views on social customs, e. 0,, widow re-marriage. We discovered differences in our estimate of western civilization. He frankly differed from me in my extreme views ou non-violence, But these differences mattered neither to him nor to ma. Nothing oould pub ua as- under. Ib were blasphemous to conjecture what would bava happened if he wore alive to-day. I know that I would have been working under him. I have made thia confession, because the anonymous letter hurt me, when it accused me of imposture about my political disciple- ship. Had I been remiss in my acknowledgment to him who is now dumb ? I thought, I must declare my faithfulness to Gokhale, especially when I seemed to be> living in a camp which the Indian world calls opposite,

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