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 had once plighted his word would not lightly break it even for a crore of rupees.

In February next year Dr. Durga Charan Banerji, with whom he had many ties of comradeship and old association, left the world. As the doctor was a great help to him in relieving the sufferings of the distressed, so he, on his part, got him out of many difficulties. A few months before his death, for instance, he sought the assistance of Vidyasagar when his son Surendra Nath Banerji was declared unfit to enter the Indian Civil Service on the alleged ground of having exceeded the age limit. Acting on his counsel he sent Surendra Nath's horoscope to England, which solved the point. After his death when the family quarrelled with bitter acrimony over the heritage and went to the law court, Vidyasagar stood up as an umpire and made up the dispute to the entire satisfaction of all parties. Again, when Surendra Nath lost government service, he provided him with a professorship in his own college.