text: " But if we allow the Khan all due credit for the adroitness and success with which he maintained on this occasion the cause of his fair countrywomen we can scarcely acquit him of something like disingenuousness in a discussion with "another lady " apparently one who had _not_ been in India and who lamented the hard fate (as she believed) of the Indian widows who could not marry again after the death of their first husband and were at the mercy of the priests who filled their heads with terrors of a future state to prevent their doing so