The Home and the World by Surendranath Tagore

The Home and the World by Surendranath Tagore

it, likewise, if the daughter-in-law 7] of the Rajah's house had left its seclusion. She was even prepared for this happening. But I did not consider it important enough to give her the pain of it. I have read in books that we are called caged birds. I cannot speak for others, but I had so much in this cage of mine that there was not room for it in the universe--at least that is what I then felt. The grandmother, in her old age, was very fond of me. At the bottom of her fondness was the thought that, with the conspiracy of favourable stars which attended me, I had been able to attract my husband's love. Were not men naturally inclined to plunge downwards? None of the others, for all their beauty, had been able to prevent their husbands going headlong into the burning depths which consumed and destroyed them. She believed that I had been the means of extinguishing this fire, so deadly to the men of the family. So she kept me in the shelter of her bosom, and trembled if I was in the least bit unwell.

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ISBN 13	9781540875419
ISBN 10	1540875415
Title	The Home and the World
Author	Surendranath Tagore
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Year published	2016-12-08
Number of pages	136
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