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sweetly. However, if I have your help, we'll rescue her in no time, you may be sure of that. So gird on your armour and the two of us will join battle against the ascetic."

Ramesh laughed.

"l haven't much reputation as a fighting-man but I'm ready."

Jogendra."just wait till the Christmas holidays."

Ramesh. "They don't begin for some days yet Hadn't I better go ahead by myself?"

Jogendra. "No, no, that would never do. It was I who broke off your engagement and I must renew it again by my own efforts. I can't let you go on with the advance-guard and rob me of so congenial a task."

Ramesh. "Then in the meantime I had better-"

Jogendra. "Certainly not! You are my guest for the next ten days. I've polished off all the people there are to quarrel with here and I need a friend's society to enable me to change my tune. I've had nothing to occupy me in the evening so far except to listen to the jackals howling, and I'm in such a parlous state that your voice sounds to me like the sweetest of music !"

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