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Howrah City bows the knee / More or less to masters three, / King, and Prince, and Siva. / Howrah City pays in pain / Taxes which the royal twain / Give to priests, to give again / (More or less) to Siva.
THAT was no time or place for any girl of twenty to be wandering unprotected. Rosemary McClean knew it; the old woman, of the sweeper caste, that is no caste at all,--the hag with the flat breasts and wrinkled skin, who followed her dogwise, and was no more protection than a toothless dog,--knew it well, and growled about it in incessant undertones that met with neither comment nor response.