[The Poison Tree by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee]@TWC D-Link bookThe Poison Tree CHAPTER XXVIII 4/10
If there is any remedy for your trouble, tell me, and I will bring it about.
Wishing to say this, I have sent Haro Mani away, and am sitting alone with you.
From your speech I infer that you belong to a very respectable family.
That you are in a state of very great anxiety, I perceive.
Why should you not tell me what it is? Consider me as your son, and speak." Surja Mukhi, with wet eyes, said: "I am dying; why should I feel shame at such a time? I have no other trouble than this, that I am dying without seeing my husband's face.
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