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By the hand of the gardener's wife he wrote to you to beg that you 

 would flee away with him. Have you forgotten what answer you 

 then returned ? Now that the prince TJday-bhan and his parents 

 have all three become deer of the forest, how is one to know where 

 they are ? Thus to persist in thinking of him, in a style unpre- 

 cedented in your whole family, is unbecoming. Abandon this inten- 

 tion. Otherwise you will rue it, and will suffer the consequences 

 of what you do. I can be of no assistance. Any good resolution 

 of yours should never pass my lips while I lived ; but this affair 

 I cannot conceal. You are still inexperienced ; you have seen 

 nothing. If I shall perceive that you are really fixed in your deter- 

 mination, I shall inform your parents of it, and shall have those ashes, 

 which that cursed wretched goblin, son of a dolt, the ascetic, gave, 

 taken away from you." Rani Ketaki, on hearing this incivility of 

 Madan-ban put her off with a laugh, saying, "Every one whose 

 heart is not his own, has myriads of such vain thoughts as mine ; 

 but there is a wide difference between saying and doing. Well, it 



