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206 when a woman's heart melts for another's pain. Who could know that such a voice would issue from Kopal-Kundala's throat on the burning-ground at the time of death?

Nobokumar said, "It is not fear. I cannot cry; through anger at this I am trembling."

Kopal-Kundala asked, "Why should you cry?"

Again that voice!

Nobokumar said, "Why should I cry? Do you wish to know, Mrinomoi? You have never seen and been maddened by beauty"——

As he spoke Nobokumar' s voice was choked with anguish.

"You have never come to tear out your own heart and fling it on the burning-ground." So saying Nobokumar suddenly shrieked and rolled in a fit of Weeping at Kopal-Kundala's feet.

"Mrinomoi!—Kopal-Kundala! Save me. Here I am at your feet. Say once that you are not faithless—say that once, and I will raise you to my heart and take you to my home again."