He had caused an orchard to be planted on Shivaji’s estate and he warned the servants that any one who stole fruit from the trees would be punished. One day he himself was standing in the orchard at noon; he was thirsty and without thinking he stretched out his hand and picked a ripe mango which swung tantalisingly before him. A moment later he remembered the warning he had addressed to the servants. He fell into an agony of remorse, imagining that people would say that he was as ready to see that other people kept their hands off his master’s property as he was to use it for his own purposes.
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