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 Bhagavati Devy took her stand near the gate and watched the passers-by with soulful eyes. Whenever she saw any hungry men, she with unfeigned warmth invited them to dinner and cheerfully set before them the best fare in her humble abode.

Warm-hearted though he was, he enforced strict discipline at college. In general lenient, he never relaxed the cords of discipline. If he saw any sign of insubordination, he checked it speedily, as he was not the man to spoil the boys by his lenity. But his wrath would vanish and he would in most cases forgive them, if the culprits were penitent and strove to make amends. He ruled them more by love than by fear.

He now entered upon what he considered his decisive life's work. It was his successful efforts to give the Hindu widows of higher classes an option to contract a second legal marriage. This is not the place for a detailed account of the movement; it must suffice to note it with brevity, without inter-