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 What misfortune is this! Is this my assistance on the funeral obsequies of the honorable Mukherji? Let me see what deadly weapon hast thou brought. (Opens the letter.)

Soirindri.  My dear, it is very miserable to fall into despair after entertaining high hopes. Let the letter remain as it is.

Nobin.  (Reads  the  letter).

Soirindri.  I think God has turned his face towards us, now, let me go, and give this information to our youngest Bou. (Exit Soirindri

Nobin.  (Aside) My life [wife] is, as it were, the idol of simplicity; it is a piece of straw in a rapid stream. Let me take my father now to Indrabad, depending on this; as to the future it shall be according to Fate. With me I have one hundred and fifty Rupees. As to the tobacco, if I had kept it for a month more, I would have sold that for the sum of five hundred Rupees; but what can I do? I am obliged to give it for three hundred and fifty Rupees; since I have to pay much for the Officers of the Court; and also heavy expenses for going to and returning from the place. If on account of this false case my father is