have lost the power of speech; let me take my father's feet once on my breast. (Sits up, taking the feet of Goluk on his breast.)
Pundit. (To the Deputy Inspector.) Let me take Bindu Madhab on my lap; you had better unloose the rope. It is never proper to keep such a godly body in this hell.
Darogah. It will be necessary to wait for a short time.
Pundit. Are you the chowkidar of hell, else why have you such a character?
Daroga. Sir, you are wise, you are reproaching me.
Enter the Doctor.
Doctor. Ho! Ho! Bindu Madhab! God's will. The Pundit is come. Bindu must not leave the College.
Pundit. It is not proper for Bindu to leave the College.
Bindu. As to our estates and possessions, we have lost every thing; at last, our father has left us beggars (weeps); how can studying be any more carried on?
Pundit. The Indigo Planters have taken away the all of Bindu Madhab and his family.
Doctor. I have heard of these Planters from the Missionaries and also I have seen them myself. Once as I was coming from a certain Planter's Factory at Matanagara, while I was sitting in a village, two ryots of the place were passing by the side of my palanquin; one of them had some milk with him, which I wanted to buy. Immediately, one whispered to the other, "The Indigo giant, the Indigo giant." Then having left the milk, they ran off. I asked another ryot, and he said, that these persons ran off for fear of being compelled to take advances for Indigo; and as I had taken the advance, what reason is there for going to his godown. I understood, he took me for a planter; I gave the milk into that ryot's hand, and went away from the place.
