CHAPTER XIV.
Rohini had gone home to make arrangements to leave the village, according to Gobind Lâl's direction. Saying nothing to Brahmânanda, she sat weeping in the middle of his house.
"I cannot leave this village. I shall die if I do not see him. If I went to Calcutta should I ever see Gobind Lâl? I won't go. This village, Haridrâ, is my heaven, this place is Gobind Lâl’s temple. This village is my burial-place and here will I die. Am I fated not to die in my own burial-place? What can any one do to me if I won't leave Haridrâ? Krishna Kanta may drive me away disgraced, I will come back again. Gobind Lâl will be angry? let him be angry, at least I shall see him. They can't put my eyes out. I won't go. I won’t go to Calcutta, I won't go anywhere. If I go it shall be to Death’s palace—nowhere else."
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