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The Poison Tree

CHAPTER III
5/13

Then Kamal, having robed her in a beautiful white garment, dressed her hair with scented oil, and decorated her with ornaments, said to her: "Now go and salute the _Dada Babu_ (elder brother), and return, but mind you do not thus to the master of the house: if he should see you he will want to marry you." Nagendra Natha wrote Kunda's history to Surja Mukhi.

Also when writing to an intimate friend of his living at a distance, named Hara Deb Ghosal, he spoke of Kunda in the following terms: "Tell me what you consider to be the age of beauty in woman.

You will say after forty, because your Brahmini is a year or two more than that.

The girl Kunda, whose history I have given you, is thirteen.

On looking at her, it seems as if that were the age of beauty.


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