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Vidyasagar is about sixty-two or sixty-three, and so some sixteen or seventeen years the Master's senior. His cloth is plain white, without a border; he has slippers on, and a sleeveless flannel shirt. His head is shaved all round, as the people of Orissa shave theirs. When he speaks his teeth gleam; they are all false. His head is very large, the forehead high, and he is rather short. He is a brahmin, and so wears the sacred thread at his neck.