The Tragedy of Unspoken Love

beaten, and next morning they were off again. They slept like babies at night, tired as they were. In the morning they ran to each other, and started

ween them with due ceremony. Parvati's mother gave her a sound thrashing and locked her up in a room. Devdas's fate was not known, because he seldom revealed these facts. But when Parvati was weeping in her room in the afternoon, he did come up to her w

rvati waited eagerl

had gone to a nearby

y were tied securely in the anchal of Parvati's sari. She whirled her anchal around, whirled herself around and whiled away some time. She couldn't find any of her friends because they were all at school. So she set off for the other end o

Mano, are

aunt came o

re is Man

school. Haven't y

school. Neith

'Oh, that is wonderful. Neither

e don'

ne. But Mano has

three Vaishnavis-aminstrel-women of the Vaishnav sect. They had sandal paste on their foreheads and musical instruments in

around and said, 'S

ou plea

1

m said, 'We can't sing like this, my dear; you'll h

ng righ

ve to give us

er anchal and said,

egan to play and sing. The songs, their meaning, all passed Parvati by; she couldn't have followed the

song and said, 'Well child,

nd handed them the three rupees. Surp

hose money is

y-d

he be

r a moment. 'No,'

said, 'Bless

'll be easy to divide it betw

ni bless your kind heart.' They prayed that this generou

ning. He held a kite spool in one hand, but didn't have the

aro, give m

ell. She said, '

d you do

he Boshtomis. T

ave them a

were only th

houldn't give

If] didn't give three rupees, how w

ees.' He used one end of the spool to scratch out the figures on the grou

d then said, 'They don't know

great difficulty and Parvati's commen

nd said, 'I thought you

the sky. 'Why w

is said, you m

er and said, 'Do I ever beat you wh

y between three people, especially for women who had never gone to school or studied arithmetic. If they were handed two rupees i

e way, they hid the s