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 * "Principal ||| 4,600
 * "Interest for 22 months and 7 days ||| 510
 * "Stamp ||| 25
 * "Registration Fee|||6
 * "7-9-68." |||
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 * "7-9-68." |||
 * |||5,141
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But Michael was not the man to pay heed to his noblest friend's advice or request. He did nothing towards repaying his debts. At last, when Sris Chandra grew most pressing and urgent, and when Michael could not be persuaded to do anything, Vidyasagar was obliged to dispose of two-thirds of his "Sanskrit Press" on the 9th August, 1869, to Raj Krishna Banarji and Kali Charan Ghosh in equal shares, at 8,000 rupees, and pay off Sris Chandra. Henceforth he was constrained to cut short heavy money transactions with Madhusudana. Yet he could not help assisting the intemperate and extravagant poet now and then with small amounts as charities, which he never asked him to repay. Consequently Michael was now obliged to look out for loans in other quarters, and was somewhat displeased with his "protector." By degrees his debts grew to such an enormity, that ruin stared him in the face, as will be evident from the following letter addressed to Vidyasagar and the schedule annexed to the letter:—