text:  The tottering and unsubstantial phantom of a _Doorauni kingdom_ vanished at once and for ever--and the only remaining alternative was (as we stated the case in our number of last July ) "either to perpetrate a second act of violence and national injustice by reconquering Affghanistan _for the vindication_ (as the phrase is) _of our military honour_ and holding it without disguise as a province of our empire--or to make the best of a bad bargain by contenting ourselves with the occupation of a few posts on the frontier and leaving the unhappy natives to recover without foreign interference from the dreadful state of anarchy into which our irruption has thrown them