Indrabad is as death to you. You rascal, you must first give me a hand-note to state you have received the advance for sixty bigahs of land, or else I shall not let you go this day. I shall break your head with this Shamchand, you stupid. It is owing to your not taking advances, that I have not been able to force advances on ten other villages.
Nobin. (With heavy sighs.) O my Mother Earth! separate yourself that I may enter into you. In my life I never suffered such an insult. O, oh!
Gopi. Babu Nobin, better go home, no use of making fuss.
Nobin. Sadhu, call on God, He is the only support of the helpless.
(Nobin Madhab goes away.)
Wood. Thou slave of the slave. Take him to the Factory, Dewan, and give him the advance according to rule.
(Wood goes away.)
Gopi. Sadhu, come along to the Factory. Does the Saheb forget his words?
Now ashes have fallen on your ready-made rice; the Yama[1] of Indigo has attacked you, and you have no safety.
FIRST ACT—FOURTH SCENE.
Goluk Chunder Basu's Hall.
Enter Soirindri preparing a hair-string.
Soirindri. I never did prepare such a piece of hair-string. The youngest Bou[2] is the most fortunate, since whatever I do in her name proves successful. The hair-string I have made, is the thinnest possible. According to
