text:  But if there be any justice in this view of the state of feeling in Affghanistan even in the moments of its greatest tranquillity it is difficult to account for the confidence with which the political authorities charged with the management of our affairs in that country looked to the future and the indifference with which they appear to have regarded what now must appear to every one else to have been very significant and even alarming intimations of dissaffection in Cabul and hostility in the neighbouring districts