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92 did he, swayed by opium, fix her face upon the shoulders of Indrâni? In thought Krishna Kanta saw that Rohini had suddenly turned into Sachi (Indra's wife), and had gone to steal the bull from Mahâdeva's cowhouse. Nandi, trident in hand, going there to give the bull his food, had caught her. A struggle ensued, the which Sadânama, Kârtika's peacock, perceiving, at the sight of her loosened locks, which reached down to her ankles in long and sinuous curls, mistaking them for hooded serpents, was about to swallow them up, when Kârtika, seeing his peacock about to commit this outrage, had gone in person to complain to Mahâdeva, and was calling out "Uncle!"

Gobind Lâl, confounded, said, "Sleep on, sir, I have not come about anything very important." He then took up the spittoon and put it right, put the spice-box in its proper place, and the stem of the hukâ in his uncle's hand. But Krishna Kanta was a vigorous old man, he did not easily forget. He said to himself, "This scamp has come only to talk again about that bright-faced woman's affair." Aloud he said, "My nap is over, I shall not sleep any more."