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kind and considerate. Isvar Chandra ever after gratefully referred to the sweetness of her disposition. His father had a mind to put him into the Hindu College. The tuition fee was Rs 5 a month, and he himself was but drawing a monthly salary of ten rupees wherewithal to support the growing family. Yet the thought of pecuniary difficulties did not damp his tender hopes. Conscious of his son's abilities, he wished to give him the best education available. For the first three months nothing was actually done in this direction. The boy was then laid up with an acute type of dysentery. This soon proving very dangerous in spite of medical aid, he was removed to the village home where he completely recovered in three months. Thakurdas now changed his plan and wanted to make a good Sanskrit scholar of him, nurturing the idea that he might in his time open a tole or Sanskrit school in the village. A near connexion of his, a student of the Sanskrit College, pointed out in glowing terms the many