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No other person, were he even the noblest of the lords instead of an ''anonymous'' writer, can or ''will'' be allowed to throw out such a malicious and mischievous hint about a woman and a citizen of the United States. He who does it risks being brought to the bar of that most just of all tribunals—a British Court. And if either of my ambuscaders wishes to test the question, pray let him put his calumny in some tangible shape. Such a vile innuendo—even when {{Page aside|29}}shaped into the sham-denial of a ''bazaar'' rumour, becomes something more serious than whole folios of the “flap-doodle” (the stuff—as sailors say—upon which fools are fed) which the ''Review’s'' Christian ''Sâstris'' serve up against Theosophy and Theosophists. In the interest of that youthful and boisterous paper itself, we hope that henceforth it will get its information from a more reliable source than the Bombay market places.

{{Style P-Signature in capitals|H. P. Blavatsky}}

{{Style P-No indent|''Bombay, March'' 14''th'', 1879.}}