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The Poison Tree

CHAPTER XXX
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Wealth, servants, friends, none of these will I retain.

I will subject myself to all the sufferings she endured.

From the day I leave Govindpur I will go on foot, live upon rice, sleep beneath a tree or in a hut.

What further expiation?
Whenever I see a helpless woman I will serve her to the utmost of my power.

Of the wealth I reserve to myself I will take only enough to sustain life; the rest I will devote to the service of helpless women.
Even of that portion of my wealth that I give to Satish, I will direct that half of it shall be devoted during my life to the support of destitute women.


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