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Embarrassment If you really wanted to smile, why did you smile looking down upon my face? Why did you bewitch me with your smile, leaving so many others aside ? Well, my Lord! Since you have enthralled me, now explain to me the significance of that smile. Your smile surely cannot be without some meaning! I suspect, this sweet smile of yours might carry some subtle irony in it! Speak, my Lord! Speak anon! My mind feels uneasy, since it cannot solve the riddle of this ironical smile. And as you speak not, I am prompted to spell out what you might be implying through that smile, as thus:
“This mad fellow has caught hold of an illusory dream, standing away from what is concrete reality.'
If this is but the meaning of your ironical smile, then why not speak out: “You silly crank! If you want to cross the sea, catch hold of the ship, leaving aside the straw!
-But you do not say anything at all, absorbed in the complacency of your detachment. Lord! This is highly embarrassing!
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