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Chapter V
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nanda's shoulder and said: "Dhirananda, prepare for fight, I shall kill you. I may have been a slave of passion but I am not a traitor. You have asked me to be a traitor and are yourself one. I shall not incur the sin of killing a Brahmin by killing a thing like you. I will kill you."
Before he had finished, Dhirananda ran away as fast as his legs would carry him. Bhavananda did not follow him, for he was abstracted for a while and when he looked for him Dhirananda was to be seen nowhere.
