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up to her as if calling on her to recal those terms of oppro-
brium she had cast upon this innocent victim of circumstantial
evidence. ‘My dear and affectionate child,’ said the aged
queen, ‘ I am sorry for what I in my passion, and under
the fullest impression of your infidelity, launched on your
innocent head. I am fully sensible of the wrong I have
done you, but let me hope that my future conduct towards
you will in some degree atone for it.’ ‘ Ah!’ said the
princess, ‘ do not say so; all that befals us is decreed by
an unerring Providence. Had you not caused me to be
expelled the palace, I might probably have never been
enabled to find means for the recovery of my lost husband :
it is to you that I am indebted for this happiness. Say
not, then, that you have wronged me. The happiness of
this moment more than atones for any amount of privation
I may have been put to, and the latter has been but very
slight indeed, comparatively.’ The king and queen were
highly pleased at this disposition on the part of the injured
princess to forget the past : if it were possible, it raised
her in their estimation in an unparalleled degree, and they
embraced her, with contrition and tears of joy streaming
down their furrowed cheeks. It was too great a happiness
for them to regain their son, whom they had never expected
to see again in this life, and at the same time to find his
wife, whom it was now evident they had unjustly expelled
the palace, placed beyond suspicion, with a fine young king
the fruit of their union. King Bhudrasain, after this,
ordered a banquet to be prepared in honour of the great
event we have recorded,—the meeting together of this
dispersed family,—and it was kept up with all the splendour
of royalty. In a short time he also caused his son, Prince
Soorsain, to be crowned in his stead, and invested with the
royal dignity.
“ The youthful Balsain, during this visit, became
smitten with the charms of a neighbouring princess, and
was soon after married. After some weeks spent in con-
viviality, he took leave of his father and grandsire, and