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No. XIII.

THE EURASIAN;

A STUDY IN CHIARO-OSCURO.




The Anglo-Indian has a very fine eye for colour. He will mark down "one anna in the rupee" with unerring certainty; he will suspect smaller coin. He will tell you how he can detect an adulterated European by his knuckles, his nails, his eyebrows, his pronunciation of the vowels, and his conception of propriety in dress, manner, and conduct.

To the thoroughbred Anglo-Indian, whose blood has distilled through Haileybury for