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CHITRA
at her. But have you grown so weary of woman’s beauty that you seek in her for a man’s strength?
With green leaves wet from the spray of the foaming waterfall, I have made our noonday bed in a cavern dark as night. There the cool of the soft green mosses thick on the black and dripping stone kisses your eyes to sleep. Let me guide you thither.
Arjuna
Not to-day, beloved.
Chitra
Why not to-day?
Arjuna
I have heard that a horde of robbers has neared the plains. Needs must I go and prepare my weapons to protect the frightened villagers.
