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1901
WEAVER Thirty thousand ! thirty thousand ! Thirty thousand !
RICH MERCHANT'S WIFE Thirty five thousand.
MINISTER'S WIFE I make it forty!
KING'S WIFE I make it a hundred thousand suvarnas !
SOM
A hundred thousand ! (looks at the cloth with
deep reverence and talks
to it) Dear wonderful wheel of magic ! o precious cloth woven of the threads of all the planets revolving in the firmament ! O unspeakable compassion of the Lord Mahavir ! A hundred thousand suvarnas !
WEAVER You are talking as though your brain had become the market-square of a hundred thousand lunatics !
KING'S WIFE A hundred thousand suvarnas !
SOM ( coolly ) Any higher bid ?
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