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 arranged that your husband should go straight to Benares from Ceylon and return thither when the marriage ceremony was completed. He did not visit his home on the way. That is how his movements were concealed from the gossips of my excellent town of Tamluk."

Purandar here bowed low and said, "Maharaj, as your highness has to-day fulfilled my heart's dearest desire, so may kind Providence fulfil your highness's every wish. In all your highness's dominions there is no happier man to-day than your highness's humble slave and subject, Purandar Chetty."