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pice, and had merely made two annas profit on the transaction! "Tell me, Padma Lochan", the girl said, "do you know the Babu of whom you speak?"
Padma Lochan replied, "What, do you not know him yourself?"
The girl replied, "No."
"Well, I thought he was some relation of yours. I do not know him."
Be that as it may, friend Padma Lochan had once more sold four rupees worth of cloth for eight rupees fourteen annas (including profit), and seeing no need of further discussion, the honest vender departed to his shop with a sense of virtue rewarded.
Meanwhile Radharani herself ran to the bazaar, and changing the rupees, purchased what she required for her mother's needs. She brought home oil, and lighted the lamp. She did the simple cooking required for her mother's simple invalid fare. Before bringing the food to the bedside, she set to work, in the Hindu fashion, of preparing for a meal, to sweep the
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