(xiii.) and the reverence of his fellow-men. His tireless activities, his constant application, and shrewd business sense secured for himself and his family the means to continue and extend these good works; to increase his store of learning; and to place the family fortunes in such state as to enable his successors to toeeome men of culture and wide usefulness, the original virtue in their blood preventing them from smisusing their great wealth. Sadhu Gokul's speculations in salt and other merchandise boldly made on a large scale won rich reward. His family, in common with many other rich and ancient families of our city, expanded healthily and freely under the protection of the British Baj, which the terrible storm of blood raised by Seeraj-ud-Dowlah had served but to establish more firmly. The Mitra family possessions grew steadily under the hands of Sadhu Gokul. He was a deeply religious man, and at the same time heed foil of the good of his fellows. It was not long before the popular voice declared that it was more to his devotion and piety than to his business instincts that he owed his prosperity. It is probable that this was so. Though a very Midas in his speculations, every business he touched turning to gold, yet, he was in his private life distinguished for a bumility and simplicity such as proceed only from true spirituality, and all his commercial affairs were marked by a scrupulous fairness, by oharity rather than harshness
