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after its annexation, to vexed questions of pay. In none of these cases does he seem to have thought the rest of the army at all involved, or that they implied either a widespread or an embittered feeling, or a combination. At the same time, he was a consistent believer in the arrangements for the Sepoy army being full of mischievous features, which must tend to make it a discontented body; and when the great Mutiny did break out, his opinion pointed more to its being the work of the ambitious spirits in it who had no fair outlet for their ambition, than to its being the result of the caste fears that had been aroused.
