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240 of the servants at Fanesleigh; but inside a week, he had made them like him, though his lack of English prevented more than a few words of conversation. Cook, who had declared that, "for her part, she was n't going to make up no unwholesome messes for no black heathens," now said that "as for that Mr. Dilâl, he was quite the gentleman, and no trouble at all;" while Nurse, who had hinted that if that sort of person came to live at Fanesleigh, she should be obliged to leave it—now went peacefully forth every day with the tall Hindu walking at her side, their young charges running before. Even the little girl whom helped wash the dishes under Cook told her village friends how interesting it was to hear about India from "that fine, nice-spoken young man," though Dilâl's descriptions of his own country were chiefly answers of one syllable to the servants' curious questions.