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Wanparthy was tall and slim with regular
well-chiselled features. I often recall his simple
but stately manner which became truly graceful
by his innate modesty and courtesy. He never
failed to call on me whenever he visited Hyderabad
and I think of him as a friend whose departure
from this world was premature. He died in the
prime of life and his place has not been filled.
Jatpole, whose manliness always impressed me,
was a fine type, unassuming and gracefully res-
pectful, with a spontaneous engaging manner
and a refreshing country-simplicity in his ways.
I have a pleasant recollection of our meeting at
Ooty in 1917 when we went to the Governor's
garden party together. After that I did not see
him so often in Hyderabad as in former times, and
in a few years his health declined fast and he
departed this life, while still comparatively
young. I have not yet ceased to regret his dis-
appearance, and hope that his place will be filled
with the same grace and dignity by his successor
whom I have known since his childhood.
I have known other Rajas but they need not
be mentioned specifically except Anagundi, the
last sad relic of the great historic raj of Vizia-
nagaram. He used to call on me when he came
to Hyderabad, and I could read the history of
his family in his eyes full of a sad expectancy.
He was a picture of forlorn hope and I could imag-
ine him as a ghost haunting ..th^. ruins of his
ancestral Humpi. Another remarkable personage
whom I had the pleasure of knowing was the Rani