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of bangles set with gold. Besides Madan-ban there was no one who 

 was bold enough to go into the presence of the bride and bridegroom 

 without being called. And without permission no one could run 

 backwards and forwards and laugh and joke with them except 

 Madan-ban. And she kept calling prince Uday-bhan by familiar 

 names in order to tease Rani Ketaki, and made sport of her in a 

 hundred other different ways. On the night on which the bride 

 and bridegroom went to their new home Madan-ban said a hundred 

 sharp things to them, viz. : Ketald having smelt the heora has blos- 

 somed. "Who cares now about these two ? Then the bride smiling 

 said from beneath her veil, Oh woman, with such beautiful onissi 

 spread on your teeth, I have a good mind to give you a slap and rub 

 it off. 



