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So far as I can recollect, there was only one other occasion when I felt thus overwhelmed with an intensely grateful feeling for the kindly sentiment, the generous regard, the more than complimentary estimate and appreciation, similar to what has been my privilege this evening to receive. That was the occasion just preceding my advent to this place, as I was bidding adieu to the Mahboob College at Secunderabad. Then, though fully alive to the extreme kindness with which I was regarded by the friends there, I could somehow avoid being overwhelmed; because there was the