CHAPTER XXX.
It is my belief that if Gobind Lâl's mother had been a good grihini this black cloud might have been dispersed by a breath. She knew there was internal division between her son and his wife. Women readily comprehend these things. If at this time she had striven, by good counsel, affectionate persuasion, and other womanly devices, to remedy the evil, I think she might have succeeded. But Gobind Lâl's mother was not a thoroughly good house-mistress. She had, moreover, conceived a sort of hatred towards her daughter-in-law since she had become inheritor of the property. She had not that love for her daughter-in-law which should make her desire Bhramar's welfare. She could not endure the thought that whilst her son lived his wife should possess the property. She never once conceived that, knowing Bhramar and Gobind Lâl's property
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