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THE DARK CHAMBER
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is but an empty fraud from top to bottom.

Suvarna

But, please Your Highness, will you have the kindness to let me off?

Kanchi

I cannot let you go—I have some use for you in this affair.

Enter a Soldier

Soldier

Your Highness, Virat, Panchal, and Vidarbha too have come. They have encamped on the other side of the river. [Exit.

Kanchi

In the beginning We must all fight together. Let the battle With Kanya Kubja first be over, then we shall find some way out of the difficulty.