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dreaming, there comes a flash of thought or
a snatch of song like a shooting star and I
hasten to capture and confine it. Sometimes
a few lines of some great poet come to remind
me of some duty to be done ; the words of
Shakespeare or some other English poet, or
some moral maxims of Horace bring a plea-
sant change to dispel dullness."
I cannot do better than reproduce some of
his own notes to throw more light on his person-
ality.
" Kind people may think (or say) that I
have done some good work in life. I wonder
if I have. Both as regards the nature of the
work and its quality, we are apt to differ.
Some people would naturally think of my offi-
cial work and those who have thought of me
since as a religious devotee and nothing else,
would only be harping on my 'sanctimonious
theory/ A small band of the initiated among
my countrymen, might occasionally think
of me as a literary man, a poet, a scholar^ a
er^ etc. But I do not like to think of
such things. "
Sir Nizamat Jung is one who finds more satis-
faction in recalling the performance of some hum-
ble duty than in thinking of his more meritorious
official or literary work. I quote the following
from his notes. :
"It is my good fortune to have been of
some little help to people who were working
in a noble cause, and to have found it possible