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tion. They all said that she had left their company during
the earlier part of the day, and that therefore they thought she
must have returned home before them. But all mentioned the
circumstance of her being accompained by Aunt Jovunnia ;
this caused a great deal of suspicion in the mind of the anxi-
ous father, who again resumed his enquiries during the next
morning ; at last one of the maids, more playful than the rest,
who had innocently followed Neeroopoma to the solitary place
in the garden, having overheard all her conversation with the
crafty Jovunnia, now reported everything to the impatient
ear of the father, who, well knowing the character of the King,
suspected that everything was not right ; and the circum-
stance of Neeroopoma being accompanied by the wily hag
served to confirm all his fears.
Maddened with the idea of this dishonor, he at once ran to
the palace, and going up directly to the Hall where Oodoy
Sing was holding his Durbar, fell prostrate on his face ;
he tore his hair and beard, and began to weep most bitterly.
On being questioned the reason thereof, he said that the
indignities that had already been heaped upon him by his
Majesty had made life altogether insupportable, and that
therefore he asked the King to add the sin of killing a
Brahmin to the one that he had already committed of seduc-
ng a Brahmin's daughter. At this the King was highly
irritated, his eyes flashed fire, and he bit his lips with rage ;
then looking towards the chopedar, cried, " Harkee fellow !
such lunatics and crack-brained fools ought never to have been
allowed to encroach upon our royal presence." He then
ordered him to turn out the Brahmin immediately. Issur
Doss being mercilessly dragged from the royal Durbar, was
exasperated with these repeated insults ; he dashed away his
tion. They all said that she had left their company during
the earlier part of the day, and that therefore they thought she
must have returned home before them. But all mentioned the
circumstance of her being accompained by Aunt Jovunnia ;
this caused a great deal of suspicion in the mind of the anxi-
ous father, who again resumed his enquiries during the next
morning ; at last one of the maids, more playful than the rest,
who had innocently followed Neeroopoma to the solitary place
in the garden, having overheard all her conversation with the
crafty Jovunnia, now reported everything to the impatient
ear of the father, who, well knowing the character of the King,
suspected that everything was not right ; and the circum-
stance of Neeroopoma being accompanied by the wily hag
served to confirm all his fears.
Maddened with the idea of this dishonor, he at once ran to
the palace, and going up directly to the Hall where Oodoy
Sing was holding his Durbar, fell prostrate on his face ;
he tore his hair and beard, and began to weep most bitterly.
On being questioned the reason thereof, he said that the
indignities that had already been heaped upon him by his
Majesty had made life altogether insupportable, and that
therefore he asked the King to add the sin of killing a
Brahmin to the one that he had already committed of seduc-
ng a Brahmin's daughter. At this the King was highly
irritated, his eyes flashed fire, and he bit his lips with rage ;
then looking towards the chopedar, cried, " Harkee fellow !
such lunatics and crack-brained fools ought never to have been
allowed to encroach upon our royal presence." He then
ordered him to turn out the Brahmin immediately. Issur
Doss being mercilessly dragged from the royal Durbar, was
exasperated with these repeated insults ; he dashed away his