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"What do you hly, "I have eyes"

"Well, yes; it is true Behind you are your people; behind us,

nothing That is why I am frantic Us up what he purports to be an unused law There is

none to contest it I tell you, Raested this ie It is horrible"

"But it lulls Uate there are ever ready men and elephants And when the moment

arrives, thither we shall fly, all of us But," mysteriously, "we may

not have to fly When Un the necessary treasury release the soldiers will

understand that once again they have been trifled with"

"We arden of brides has already been described But on this day when

the ten veiled candidates sat in waiting there was spring in the air;

and there were roses cli over the ranate blossoate

stood Ra by

proxy the king Presently a splendid palanquin arrived, and within it

a tardy candidate She was laden with jewels, armlets, anklets and

head orna

her veil she revealed a beautiful high caste face Ramabai bade her

pass on No sooner had she taken her place than still another

palanquin was announced, and this last was drawn by fat sleek bullocks,