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"Sappier and verbier than you guess! Hurry! Hurry!"
No less swift or sure of touch than Copeland's to the villager's needs, Chullunder Ghose's genius leaped instantly to deal with Ram Dass. That a middle-aged man of affairs should face such filthy weather, at a time of riot, was sufficient proof that opportunity was stirring, and the babu knew the nature of the seed that he had planted in the merchant's mind. The law of probabilities suggests, if it does not actually indicate, that certain sorts of men are likely to react in a clearly predictable way to certain sorts of pressure; and the babu was an artist; he could recognize a psychological condition with the accuracy of a sculptor making notes for future use, and with the skill of a physician who observes the symptoms that a patient is trying to hide from himself.