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And if it had not been for this wave of loneliness; this parching, astringent wind of sorrow that seemed to dry up the oil of his joints, evaporate the simple liquor of his thought, put out the vital sparkle in his eye; and now, latest act of dispossession, to milk his old veins of their warmth -- if it had not been for this influence and prescience,

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"Those who hated India," wrote Salman with awful prescience,

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