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 | | Whereupon Shashi, the misanthrope, looked fl, and used hard words and told his friend that good nature and soft-heartedness had caused him to commit a very bad action--a grievous sin. |
 | | Hardly, however, had Chandraprabha been married to Shashi the Pandit, when Manaswi went to him, and began to wrangle, and said, "Give me my wife!" He had recovered from the effects of his fall, and having lost her he therefore loved her--very dearly. |
 | | But Shashi proved by reference to the astrologers, priests, and ten persons as witnesses, that he had duly wedded her, and brought her to his home; "therefore," said he, "she is my spouse." |
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