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The Poison Tree

CHAPTER XIV
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I went to see her." "Have you not gone far enough in vice?
Are you not satisfied yet, that you wish to ruin that unprotected girl?
See, Debendra, you are so sinful, so cruel, so destructive, that we can hardly associate with you any longer." Surendra said this with so much firmness that Debendra was quite stunned.

Then he said, seriously: "Do not be angry with me; my heart is not under my own control.

I can give up everything else but the hope of possessing this woman.

Since the day I first saw her in Tara Charan's house I have been under the power of her beauty.

In my eyes there is no such beauty anywhere.


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