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 of duty. He had already more than his full share of the crosses and cares, yet he must pass through sterner trials. A man of popular sympathies as he always was, he must now shoulder the still heavier burden of his fellowmen's sufferings. Men of his stamp have no private life. To know what he was it is necessary to consider how he manfully met the manifold miseries of human life.

Sir James Colvile, Chief Justice of Bengal, with whom he had formed a close friendship, advised him to pass the Law Examination and enrol himself as a pleader. Though in his youth he had taken a dislike to the bar, he deemed it well to revise and, if necessary, correct his opinion. For some days he studied his friend Babu Dwarka Nath Mitter, a rising practitioner of the time. But finding that his capabilities did not lie that way, he gave up the idea altogether.

Misfortunes do not come single. A calamity befell him in the death of his dear