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Rh now-a-days there is no skilled painter like you."

Mehe. Even if there be not, where is the pity?

Moti. If any other were as skilled as you, they might preserve a model of this face of yours.

Mehe. Will a likeness of the face remain in the earth of the grave?

Meheronissa said this somewhat gravely.

Moti. Sister, why so serious to-day?

Mehe. How am I serious? But I cannot forget that you are going to leave me tomorrow morning. Can you not please me by stopping two days more?

Moti. Who does not wish for pleasure? If it were possible to stay, why should I go? But I am the servant of another; how can I remain?

Mehe. You do not love me any more; if you wanted to stay, you could manage it in some way. You have come here, and why can't you remain?

Moti. I have told you all. My brother is a mansubdar in the Mogul army—he was