a dog for you? You coward son of a Kaista (throws him down with kicks). Were you sent as witness to the Commission you would have ruined everything, you, diabolical nigger (two kicks more); with such a tongue you shall do your work like a Caot[1]. You stupid kaet. Were it not for your work on to-morrow, I would send you to the jail.
(Exit Mr. Wood and the Apprentice
Gopi. (Rubbing his body all over and rising up). A person becomes the Dewan of an Indigo Planter after being born a vulture[2] seven hundred times; else how are numberless kicks dealt by legs wearing stockings digested? Oh! what kickings? Oh the fool is, as it were, the wife [wearing a gown] of a student who is out of College.[3] (Aside) Dewan, Dewan.
Gopi. Your servant is present. Whose turn is it?
"In the sea of love are many waves."
(Exit Gopi
SECOND SCENE
The bed room of Nobin Basu
Aduri crying when preparing Nobin's bed
Aduri. Ah! ah! ah! Where shall I go? My heart is on the point of bursting. They have beaten him so severely that the pulse is moving very slowly; our mistress will die as soon as she sees this. When Nobin was taken by force to the Factory, they were tearing themselves and weeping
- ↑ Caot is the name of a mean caste: and the word Kaet is only a common form of expression for the term Kaista.
- ↑ The vulture is taken for a detestable bird.
- ↑ The wife…college: the enlightened Bengali wife of those days was a departure from the run of ordinary women, in so far as she would not easily submit to her husband, but would, on the contrary, demand submission from him—Ed.
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