Gandhi Autobiography

surprise found Narayan Hemchandra. I was shocked. His face, however, showed nothing but his usual smile. 'But did not the childr ...

worshipping mere marble. They were fired with genuine devotion and they worshipped not stone, but the divinity of which it was s ...

I could see then, nor have I seen since, how these dinners qualified the students better for the bar. There was once a time when ...

not to damage that of others) was one of them, but I was at a loss to know how one could employ this maxim for the benefit of on ...

I could not read Kaye and Malleson's volumes in England, but I did so in South Africa as I had made a point of reading them at t ...

realization. I saw later that this last was the only thing for which he lived. The following lines of Muktanand were always on h ...

assumed that I should have a swinging practice and had, in that expectation, allowed the household expenses to become top-heavy. ...

have meant sure ridicule. I had hardly the knowledge of a qualified vakil and yet I expected to be paid ten times his fee! No cl ...

'It is not unusual,' he would add, 'for a barrister to vegetate for five or seven years. That's why I have signed the articles f ...

'But I have passed the London Matriculation with Latin as my second language.' 'True but we want a graduate.' There was no help ...

put it bluntly, how I deceived myself. Let me add, however, that I do not remember ever to have given a commission in respect of ...

here, let him tear up the note and pocket the insult. He will gain nothing by proceeding against the sahib, and on the contrary ...

If there had been any rule or regulation governing such decisions, it would have been something, but here the sahib's will was l ...

tried our best,' said the agent, 'to secure a first class passage, but in vain unless you are prepared to go on deck. Your meals ...

This in my life was the third trial of its kind. Many a youth, innocent at first, must have been drawn into sin by a false sense ...

On the second or third day of my arrival, he took me to see the Durban court. There he introduced me to several people and seate ...

On the whole I liked Abdulla Sheth's advice. I wrote to the press about the incident and defended the wearing of my turban in th ...

'I shall stay where your lawyer puts me up, or I shall find out independent lodgings. Pray don't worry. Not a soul shall know an ...

It was winter, and winter in the higher regions of South Africa is severely cold. Maritzburg being at a high altitude, the cold ...

the loss of another day, and Heaven only knows what would have happened the next day. So, much as I fretted within myself, I pru ...