| |
| | [No title] |
 | | To accomplish that, more was wanted than a competent knowledge of the language of the original and a fluent command of English: it was necessary to be familiar with the details of native life and manners, and to have a sufficient acquaintance with the religious, domestic, and social customs of Bengali homes. |
 | | The author of "The Poison Tree" is Babu Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, a native gentleman of Bengal, of superior intellectual acquisitions, who ranks unquestionably as the first living writer of fiction in his Presidency. |
 | | Beside him on the bed, Satish Chandra, a child of a year old, was rejoicing in the possession of an English newspaper. |
| www.ibiblio.org /pub/docs/books/gutenberg/1/7/4/5/17455/17455.txt (21635 words) |
|