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The Poison Tree

CHAPTER XXXV
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Without raising his eyes Nagendra said-- "Kunda, when did you come?
This whole night I have been dreaming of Surja Mukhi.

In my dream I saw myself with my head on Surja Mukhi's lap.

If you could be Surja Mukhi, how joyful it would be!" The woman answered, "If it would delight you so much to see that unhappy being, then I am she." Nagendra started up, wiped his eyes, sat holding his temples, again rubbed his eyes and gazed; then bowing his head, he said in a low voice-- "Am I demented, or is Surja Mukhi living?
Is this the end of my destiny, that I should go mad ?" Then the woman, clasping his feet, wept over them, saying, "Arise, arise, my all! I have suffered so much.

To-day all my sorrow is ended.
I am not dead.

Again I have come to serve you." Could delusion last longer?
Nagendra embraced Surja Mukhi, and laid his head upon her breast.


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