Dutt, Romesh Chunder: The literature of Bengal: being an attempt to trace the progress of the national mind in its various aspects, as reflected in the nation’s literature from the earliest times to the present day ; with copious extracts from the best writers (Calcutta, 1877)

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aa hemister, and relieves her of her humiliating wcu-k.
Soon ^tfter Dhanapati, who,—^ pleasure-loving, quiet,
elderly gentleman as he was,—was leading a reprehen-
sible life in Eastern Bengal, returns to his country with
the golden cage, and who is so happy as the young and
beauteous Kh&llona, the darling of her husband ] j»
We shall not dwell on the joy of the young wife on
the return ftof her husband ; nor of the schemes of Dur-
bola who, true to her character, goes first to congratulate
Khullona with 'Sftr^ ^1 Tt^^Tf^J &c., and
then to Lahana to foment her jealousies with " *&(\% ^^T5
*FS "sjl >r^st? 5t%^5 " &c. ; nor on the graphic descriptions
of Durbola's bringing things from the market, and the
young wife's cooking them with sjdll of a chjpf de cuisine
to please her husband; nor on the specious lies with ,)
which Lahana attempted to conceal her acts, and the
I tricks by which she tried to dissuade Khullona from go-
ing to her lord; nor on the *f>ptnres of the ^meeting
between Dhanapati and Khullona who appeared in superb
dress and beauty, recounted her sufferings, but forgot
them all in the embraces of her lord.

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