"حياة ومراسلات اللواء السير جون مالكوم، قائد فرسان وسام الطُهر، المبعوث السابق إلى بلاد فارس وحاكم بومباي؛ من رسائل ومذكرات غير منشورة. في مجلّدين. المجلد II." [‎٣‎٤‎٦] (٦٥٤/٣٦٣)

346 CENTEAL INDIA.
This difference is, doubtless, to be assigned to physical
rather than to moral causes. John Malcolm and Charles
Metcalfe were men equally of a robust nature; but the
robustness of the civilian was the robustness of an
honesty that never yielded and a fortitude that never
failed; it was of a quiet, settled, determined, immovable
character—great, at all times, in resistance. But he had no
personal activity, no love of adventure; he shrank from
all kinds of athletic exercise ; he was thoroughly a man,
and yet he was almost ludicrously incapable of taking
part in those manly sports which harden the nerves and
strengthen the system, and brace men up for the part
they have to play in the strenuous realities of public
life. Malcolm's robustness, steadfast as it was, was also of
an active kind. It was all life and motion, buoyant and
breezy. An admirable horseman and judge of horses, a
mighty hunter, fearless of heart and steady of hand, he
was never in higher spirits than when in hot pursuit of a
tiger or other inspiring game. He was altogether a man
of an athletic cast, fit for any kind of adventure, equal
to any fortune, made to jostle his way through the
world. All this was the result of conscious physical
power, as in Metcalfe the absence of these qualities was
the result of a painful sense of his personal defects. For
outwardly Malcolm was a man of heroic mould as much
as Metcalfe was the reverse. The soldier was a man of
a commanding stature and a noble presence; with a
muscular but supple frame, and a face bright with manly
beauty; but the civilian had no personal graces; he
had a stunted figure, and a face redeemed from insig
nificance only by the intelligence of his countenance and
the sweetness of his smile.
And now that these two laborious workers met again,
both in high place, both honored, and both with an
unappeased ambition—for the soldier and the civilian