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from him even a scrap of paper, you have given him any time you choose
The temple boy attached to him told me that he never got irritated He keeps his temper even when Visitors early provoked He is up from his pallet long beand late fore dawn and retires not before nine Squatted before a low desk, he is ever busy doing something or the other, reading books or proof sheets or writing articles or replying letters. Visitors intrude upon his privacy at any hour of the day Many of them come to pay merely formal respects They come from the Punjab, Bengal, Marwar, Madras or some such distant places He is so very accommodating to others that he does not like to displease them They keep on talking till the thin end of it He bears all this nuisance with a cheerful face and does not betray even by a wrinkle on his forehead how much it pains him to be hindered in his work
He is now known abroad and men and woman come to see him from Italy, Switzerland, UK and U. SA
The minute the pious soul is gone, he immediately turns to his scheduled study Albert the visiting man or woman does not go back without some cheering word from him or a pinch of Vasxepis If he is lucky enough to manage shorten the visit, the visitor is atleast sure to carry with him the sweet memory of a friendly smile Many who have come in contact with him experience a certain expansion
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