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 time needed for completing it be long. I shall any how reach the end. Having begun it,having, in fact, touched the last rung,it cannot be the pleasure of Hari that I should not be able to ascend it. He who has so long befriended the enterprise will not abandon me in its very last stage. I have much to say regarding the conduct of this enterprise from its beginning, to express obligations to various eminent personages without whose aid nothing could be done, and, lastly, to give an idea of the difficulties which have been surmounted. These I reserve for the concluding appeal with which I wish to bid my final adieu to the public in order to enter that life of privacy and retirement which is ordained by the Scriptures I believe in for one of my sex and condition.

SUNDARI BĀLĀ RĀY.