PROJECT ASHABI
African Stories. Limitless Worlds.
PROJECT ASHABI
African Stories. Limitless Worlds.
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Produced by Eric Eldred and Chetan K. Jain
[Translated from Bengali to English by Devabrata Mukherjee]
[New York: The Macmillan Company, 1914 Copyright 1914, by Mitchell Kennerley; Copyright, 1914 by The Macmillan Company]
MADHAV AMAL, his adopted child SUDHA, a little flower girl THE DOCTOR DAIRYMAN WATCHMAN GAFFER VILLAGE HEADMAN, a bully KING'S HERALD ROYAL PHYSICIAN
MADHAV. What a state I am in! Before he came, nothing mattered; I felt so free. But now that he has come, goodness knows from where, my heart is filled with his dear self, and my home will be no home to me when he leaves. Doctor, do you think he--
PHYSICIAN. If there's life in his fate, then he will live long. But what the medical scriptures say, it seems--
PHYSICIAN. The scriptures have it: "Bile or palsey, cold or gout spring all alike."
MADHAV. Oh, get along, don't fling your scriptures at me; you only make me more anxious; tell me what I can do.
Arthur Conan Doyle
