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296 GOA AND THE BLUE MOUNTAINS.
in the dread presence of a " woman." We have
clergymen, priests, missionaries, tavern-keepers,
school-masters, and scholars, with precieux and
precieuses ridicules of all descriptions.
But, unhappily, the said circle is divided into
several segments, which do not willingly or neatly
unite. In the first place, there is a line of de-
marcation occasionally broken through, but pretty
clearly drawn between the two Presidencies. The
Mulls * again split into three main bodies, 1, the
very serious ; 2, the petit-serieux; and, 3, the un-
sanctified. So do the Ducks, but these being upon
strange ground are not so exclusive as they other-
wise would be. Subdivision does not end here.
For instance, the genus serious will contain two
distinct species, the orthodox and the heterodox
serious. The unsanctified also form numerous little
knots, whose bond of union is some such acci-
dental matters as an acquaintance previous to meet-
ing on the hills, or a striking conformity of tastes
and pursuits.
* As the Madrassees are familiarly called. The cunning in
language derive the term from mulligatawny soup, the quan-
tity of which imbibed in South India strikes the stranger with
a painful sense of novelty.
in the dread presence of a " woman." We have
clergymen, priests, missionaries, tavern-keepers,
school-masters, and scholars, with precieux and
precieuses ridicules of all descriptions.
But, unhappily, the said circle is divided into
several segments, which do not willingly or neatly
unite. In the first place, there is a line of de-
marcation occasionally broken through, but pretty
clearly drawn between the two Presidencies. The
Mulls * again split into three main bodies, 1, the
very serious ; 2, the petit-serieux; and, 3, the un-
sanctified. So do the Ducks, but these being upon
strange ground are not so exclusive as they other-
wise would be. Subdivision does not end here.
For instance, the genus serious will contain two
distinct species, the orthodox and the heterodox
serious. The unsanctified also form numerous little
knots, whose bond of union is some such acci-
dental matters as an acquaintance previous to meet-
ing on the hills, or a striking conformity of tastes
and pursuits.
* As the Madrassees are familiarly called. The cunning in
language derive the term from mulligatawny soup, the quan-
tity of which imbibed in South India strikes the stranger with
a painful sense of novelty.