FIRST SCENE
Before the Factory in Begunbari
Enter Gopi Churn and a Native Jailor
[Khalasi, i. e. Warder]
Gopi. As long as your share is not less, you donot care to bring anything to my notice.
Jailor. Can that filth be digested by one person eating the whole? I told him, if you eat, give a part to the Dewanji; but he says what power has your Dewan? He is not so much the son of a Keot, (shoe-maker caste) that he shall direct the Saheb like unto one leading a monkey.
Gopi. Very well, now go. I shall show that Kaot what a club he is. I shall show how strong the son of a Kaot may be.
The fellow has got so much power through the authority of the younger Saheb. I shall also say it is a very easy thing for one to carry on his work, if his master be the husband of his sister. The elder Saheb becomes very angry at this word. But the fellow is very angry with me; at every word, he shows me the Shamchand. That day he kicked me with his stocking on. These few days, I see that his temper is become somewhat mild towards me; since Goluk Bose is summoned, he has expressed a little kindness. A person is considered very expert by the Saheb, if he can bring about the ruin of many. "One becomes a good Physician by the death of one hundred patients."
(Seeing Mr. Wood)
Here he is coming; let me first soften up his mind by giving him some information about the Boses.
Enter Mr. Wood
Saheb, tears have now come out of the eyes of Nobin Bose. Never was he punished more severely. His garden is taken
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