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Rh brow, calm, high, untinged by fear or shame, full of unexpressed thought, her cheek even now bright, her lower lip so full of sweetness, even yet shaming the Rattikâ (a red seed with a black spot). Tears sprang to the eyes of Gobind Lâl as he said, "Alas! alas! why did the Creator send you into the world with such beauty? and having formed you so beautiful, why did He not make you happy? Why have you gone away thus?" He felt himself the cause of this beautiful woman's self-destruction, and his heart felt ready to burst.

If Rohini still lived she must be saved.

[The rest of Chapter XVI. is taken up with a somewhat lengthened description of the methods usually adopted in reviving the drowned. As this is not likely to interest the English reader it has been omitted. The author represents Gobind Lâl as becoming enamoured of Rohini during this process. The text is resumed at Chapter XVII.]

As soon as Rohini began to breathe Gobind Lâl gave her some physic. It was a powerful restorative, and gradually Rohini