No. V.
THE SECRETARY TO GOVERNMENT.
He is clever, I am told; and being clever he has to be rather morose in manner and careless in dress, or people might forget that he was clever. He has always been clever. He was the clever man of his year. He was so clever when he first came out that he could never learn to ride, or speak the Indian language, and had to be translated to the Provincial Secretariat. But though he could never speak an intelligible sentence in the vernacular, he
