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Only why should it be with pain at all, / Why must I 'twixt the leaves of coronal / Put any kiss of pardon on thy brow? / Why should the other women know so much, / And talk together: -- Such the look and such / The smile he used to love with, then as now. / _Any Wife to any Husband_.
SCENE. -_A Naini Tal dinner for thirty-four. Plate, wines, crockery, and khitmatgars carefully calculated to scale of Rs. 6000 per mensem, less Exchange. Table split lengthways by bank of flowers._