[The Poison Tree by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee]@TWC D-Link bookThe Poison Tree CHAPTER IX 2/8
To whom can I speak? You are my beloved sister; except you no one loves me.
Also it concerns your brother.
I can speak of it to no one but you. "I have prepared my own funeral pyre.
If I had not cared for Kunda Nandini, and she had died, would that have been any loss to me? God cares for so many others--would He not have cared for her? Why did I bring her home to my own destruction! When you saw that unfortunate being she was a child, now she is seventeen or eighteen.
I admit she is beautiful; her beauty is fatal to me.
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