This is paragraph 10 Mundra, and she alone, had caused the team of her husband, so bought every one in the village and so thought the child hersel brought up in Hinduism. Now she realized the death of her parentes for had they been alive she would have been sent back to them at once. But since they were dead she had to be kept as a despised member of the household of her mother practically a stave there with all the hardships and abuse usually attendant upon the lot of such a person Her hair had been cut off her pretty jewelry had been taken from her. her coloured saris had been sold to a neighbour, and in place of all these belongings she had been given a few yards of white cotton to wrap abona her and part of a ragged banket for a bed But Mundra could have stood all thes hard treatment, hard as had been, and even glady would have slept on the mud porch with the cate or in the street win the dogs, only every one had not hated her and shunned her as foul l and unclean only on one had loved her, only some one ad even spoken kindly to h on o red upon her