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Chapter XVII
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in vain, but after a long trial Bhavananda's face grew bright—he felt a faint breath in his fingers. He then smeared the body with more juice and breath began to grow fuller. Feeling the pulse, he felt that it had grown quick. Then Kalyani slowly opened her eyes like the morning glow as it first dawns in the east or the blooming of the lotus as it first opens its eyes of a morn or the sweet breath of love when first it blows on human heart. Bhavananda then took up the half-revived body on his horse and rode off with it to town.
