The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-04-18

college he was quite different in form
and taste from what he Is at presen,
as session Judge. Now he is bold
In the front and has tiki in the back
of his head and he shaves clean every
morning. But at that time he had boa nd,
mustachc and spcctacles, and the Eu-
ropean way in which he dressed his
hair marked him out as quite
fashionable young man. lie was
very fastidious about his dress, and
he did not mind eating meat and taxi
ing wine. And he had one or two
other allied habits.
Not far from his house there lived
middle class family. They had a
widowed daughter Her name was
l1emsashi. She vas about Is years
old
The panorama on the seashore looks
picturesque and like a dream from
on the sea. but IT loses it's singu-
lar beauty when seen from the shore
similarly by virtue Of her widowhood
she was not in the full swing OF the
world. Living life apart. the world
looked To her perfectly beautiful and
enchanting like a pleasure garden.
She did not know that the mechan-
ism of the world machine was complex
and as hard as iron; that this world
was full OF joys and SORROWS. pros
pcrit;es and adversities. difficulties,
despairs and regrets. She was wont
! to think that the world was as simple
as the flow of translucent fountain
water on mountain top: that all
the ways of the world were wide and
siUtnlN fh..f han 81,
| II her reach and unsatisfied desires
were confined only in her palpitating
and parched little heart.
Specially at this period of her life
youthful zephyr rising from tn dis
| tant corners Of tho sky of her heart
suffusod the universe with the halo
of Spr!ngtimc beauty. All the waters
in the universe were ripping with tho
= breeze from her heart: and the world
seemed Ike lotus with its petals all
! spread out on is crimson lovclincss.
/ III msdshis family consisted of her
parents and two younger brothers.
, The brothers used to take their meals
early and so to school and on their
return they took their dinner early
and IN the evening went To the night
school for study. The father did not
earn much. so he could not hire teach
crs at home.
Her work over Hcmsashi used to
sit by the window of her lonely room
and intently lock at thu streams Of
men passing by. She would listen
to the pathetic but loud call f the
hawkers and think that the wayfarers
were happy and that even the beg
CARS wer, free: and she also thought
that the hawkcrs were not entirely en-
gagged in making "A livelihood. but that
they were pi inCipal actors in this
gay procession along the street.
And from IN window. morning,
noon n night. she could see neatly
dressed and proud locking Mohitmo-
han. and she took him to he an all
round young man. \nd she also
thought that there was nothing In the
world that could not be given to that
hands me. erect and II dress ed man.
She thought that just as little girls
instilled, in imagination, life into a
dol before playing vita II. similarly
she thought that i. evidence had M
parted all good qualities into Moh,
to play with him as with doll.
once in while in the evenings she
used to notice Mohit's psrlor well lit
and hear II reverberate with the music
of the nautch girls. ON such nights
sac would sit aud lovingly look at the
| shifting human shadows on the
ground and thus pass the ma jor por-
ton of the night. Just as restless
bird presses against the Ratings OF IT'S
cage. even 80 her heavy and heaving
noart began to press bard against the
| ribs.
Snc never IN her mind rebukcd her
imaginary deity Tor his frivolous
orgies, just as fire lures flies with
the IMAGE Of the moon. even so tina;
joyful room Of NOTTINGHAM lured
iiemsashi with an ina ginary pictur,
= IF heaven.
she was wont 10 sit alone by hci
window, and the light, the shadow and
tho music in her room and the desire,
: and fancieS IN her own mind createC
] a fdnciful world. and therein she woulC
place the idol of her heart and wor
ship MIN to her hearts content witt
r the flowers and incense OF her youth
p fuI desires. She never thought tina
/ in that current of seeming pleasure.
lay latent hidcouS tircsumencss. re