is as a desert full of corpses; while I have lost my father, my mother, my brother, and my wife. Ah! where are they gone to in search of the dead body of my brother? I am to prepare for going to the Ganges as soon as they come. Ah! how very terrible, the last scene of the drama of the lion-like Nobin Madhab is? (_Sits down, taking hold of Sabitri’s feet_). [_The curtain falls down._ _FINIS._ ----- Footnote 70: The face of her husband. Footnote 71: It sometimes happens, that during sleep the child either cries or laughs; that is called, the Deala of the child. Footnote 72: An ornament made of shell for the wrists of women. Footnote 73: That is, let her become a widow within three days, who has made me so. Footnote 74: The Sala is the native name of the tree _Shorea robusta_. Footnote 75: The wives of the same husband. Footnote 76: _Volkmeria odorata._ Footnote 77: Dhannantari is the Physician of the Gods. Footnote 78: Shoranan is one of the names of Kartikeya. In this place, it refers to Nobin Madhab, on account of the great honor which he had acquired from the people of the country; and he is compared with Kartikeya, because he had much honour among the gods. Footnote 79: The gait of the swan is considered in this country the most beautiful model of the motion of the feet. ----- ------------------------------------ Calcutta Printing and Publishing Press, No. 10, Weston’s Lane. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Transcriber’s Note Errors deemed most likely to be the printer’s have been corrected, and are noted here. The references are to the page and line in the original, including those which occur in the footnotes. Minor lapses of punctuation in the formatting of the dialog itself are corrected without comment here. 18.31 how many days are there still remaining of Replaced. this month[./?] 19.32 This is a Bengal[l]i term Removed. 24.1 I shall take her away by certain latyals[.] Added. 24.15 Did you inform Sadhu of this[./?] Replaced. 34.19 but one of my friends[./,] Bonkima by name, Replaced. 42.5 like unto one leading a [,/.] Replaced. 45.11 business of the Amin[;/,] then this kind Replaced. 46.6 My dear, you can, with [c/e]ase, give Replaced. 48.7 My hea[s/r]t bursts Replaced. 65.13 the Kazi (the Mahomedan judge)[./?] Replaced.