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128 When evening fell, she wrapped these things in a parcel and took them with her to the women's apartments in the Râi's house. Into the room where Bhramar was lying in solitude on the ground, now weeping, now staunching her tears and gazing up at the ceiling, thither went Rohini and sat down, placing her bundle beside her. Bhramar was amazed. At the sight of Rohini her whole body burned as though she were poisoned. Unable to endure it, she said—

"You went the other night to the Thâkur's room to steal; have you come here now for the same purpose?"

Rohini thought, "I have come to shave your head" (i.e., serve you out). Aloud she said, "Now I have no further need to steal, I no longer beg for money. By the Mejo Bâbu's favour I have no further difficulty about food and clothes, but it is not quite as much as people say."

Bhramar.  "Be off from here."

Paying no heed to that direction, Rohini repeated, "It is not as much as people say. They say I have received seven thousand rupees. In fact it is altogether three thousand in jewels and this sâri. I have