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exclaimed, “ Through vice and folly, through cupidity 
and unreasonable affection for our own flesh and blood, 
come sorrow and bereavement. Thus is wisdom taught 
to the blind. Be warned, 0 my son ; youth, wealth, 
fraud, and an inconsiderate action, will each of them 
occasion danger. What measure of disaster then will 
not be accomplished by all four of them in con- 
junction ? Among all possessions, experience and 
example appear pre-eminently valuable ; by the wise 
they are called supreme riches ; because they can 
never be lost, stolen, or destroyed ; and as, by the 
company of gold, even glass acquires the brilliancy of a 
gem, so, by the society of the wise and good, are the 
less perfect made to shine. And again, whosoever is 
watchful to restrain his evil propensities, who speaks 
considerately, who acts advisedly, a dutiful child, a 
conscientious parent, these for a thousand years give 
birth to no misfortune ; but mark the respective situa- 
tions of him who eats inordinately and of the food 
which he devours ; do you not discern the short friend- 
ship and the total destruction of both.” Having thought- 
fully pronounced these words of wisdom, Purwatti 
hastened to embrace his drooping child. 
The return of her father went far to restore both 
the bodily and mental disease of Vanadosini, and in 
a few days she was seen reclining by his side beneath 
the deep shade of the circling banian, in company 
with the pearl -merchant and Bikhari. The subject 
of conversation was evidently one of absorbing interest 
