RADHARANI
They put it carefully away. They were very poor, but they were not avaricious.
II.
It was much that Radharani's mother should have got the little comforts she needed. But her infirmity continued to increase. She had been a very wealthy woman. She was now reduced to dire poverty. What with bodily fatigue and mental anxiety her vitality was sapped. Her illness grew steadily worse, and at last it was plain that her end was near.
It was at this time that news came from England that the Lords of the Privy Council had decided the case in her favour. It seemed that she was to get her property back, that the law expenses and costs were to be refunded to her, the heavy costs of three successive trials in court. One Kamakhyanath Babu had been their pleader in the High Court, and this gentleman came in person to their cottage to tell them the news. On hearing this joyful news, the dying
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