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of Lallubhai possesses all the qualities which go to make a successful pleader, and had he only chosen to accept Law as his profession after passing his Law Examination in 1894, he would have, by this time, made his name as one of the foremost pleaders of the Bhavnagar Bary but circumstances willed it otherwise, and he decided to spend his life in the less boisterous and lucrative but more unassuming and sacred profession of a school master.
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From his very childhood Lallubhai gave promise of a distinguished after-career, and his germinal qualities found a congenial field for rapid development under the fostering and guiding care of the father, who spared no efforts on behalf of his beloveds on. The child rapidly picked up his lessons in elementary education' nor was the religious education of the boy neglected and the precocious young student at a very early age, imbibed all the religious ideas and practices of the family. After an uninterrupted and brilliant career first at the Local Gujarati School and subsequently at the Alfred High
