[The Poison Tree by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee]@TWC D-Link bookThe Poison Tree CHAPTER XXXI 10/10
"The rest that happened I have seen with my own eyes.
From Barhi she walked alone to Madhupur. From fatigue, fasting, sun, rain, despair, and grief, Surja Mukhi, seized by illness, fell to the ground ready to die." Srish Chandra was silent for a time; at length he said: "Brother, why dwell upon this an longer? You are not in fault; you did nothing to oppose or vex her.
There is no cause to repent of that which has come about without fault of our own." Nagendra did not understand.
He knew himself to blame for all.
Why had he not torn up the seed of the poison tree from his heart? .
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