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done us. Do just complete your kindness by informing me about my daughter." Santi looked at Jivananda's face and said, " I shall sleep now. For the whole time I have not sat once ; for the last two nights I have had no rest. I have borne all this only because I am such a manly person." Kalyani smiled a little. Jivananda looked at Mahendra and said : " I take that charge. You go to Padachinha ; there you will get your daughter." Jivananda went to Bharuipur to get the child from Nimai. The work was not altogether easy. Nimai first gulped a draught of air ; then she looked about ; then her lips and nostrils swelled ; at last she broke into tears and cried out : " I won't give you the child." Nimai began to rub her eyes with the back of her round arms. This done, Jivananda said : " Well, but sister, why do you weep ? The place isn't far away. You might as well go to their house now and then and see the child." Nimai's lips swelled again as she angrily retorted : " Well, well, take her away ; your thing you may take away ; what's that to me ?" She then brought Sukumari there, and, throwing her angrily before Jivananda, spread out her legs and sat down to cry. So, Jivananda did not speak more about it and began to speak of odd things of all sorts. But Nimai's anger was not soothed. She went away and began to throw before Jivananda one by one Sukumari's bundle of clothes, her box of