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120 three generations, and whose cousins to the fourth degree are Collectors and Indian Army Colonels, the Eurasian, however fair he maybe, is a bête noir. Mrs. Ellenborough Higgins is always setting, or pointing at black blood.

And sometimes the whitey-brown man is objectionable. He is vain, apt to take offence, sly, indolent, sensuous; and, like Reuben, "unstable as water." He has a facile smile, a clammy hand, a manner either forward or obsequious, a mincing gait, and not always the snowiest linen.

Towards natives the Eurasian is cold, haughty, and formal; and this attitude is repaid, with interest, in scorn and hatred. There is no concealing the fact that to the mild Gentoo the Eurasian is a very distasteful object.

But having said this, the case for the prosecution closes, and we may turn to the many soft and gentle graces which the Eurasian developes.

In all the relations of family life the Eurasian is admirable. He is a dutiful son, a circumspect husband, and an affectionate