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What An Adoration of Virtues !
"All this is the sport of destiny."
"Yet?"
"Tomorrow.... We have to go and start living in another
palace".
"Why so?" saying this, suddenly, Nayana stood up.
"I have already told you. All this is the sport of fate." Simhika said trying hard to laugh.
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"Oh Queen? Say clearly what you want to say. What is the offence you have committed to suffer thus ?"
Simhika sat up on her bed. For a few moments she kept staring at her. Even now, the bandage on Nayana's left eyes had not been removed.
"What on earth is the matter? Why should we live in a separate palace? Even this is our palace".
"No! You mad girl! This palace belongs to the King of Ayodhya".
"So is it ours also".
"That was so in the past; not to-day."
"Then, has the king...... ?"
"Yes! He himself gave this command."
"Is there any reason for this ?"
"I mingled with other men in the about with other men. He has not liked this."
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war. I openly moved
"If you had not fought in the war, to-day neither you nor the king could have been seen here. On the other hand you two should have been spending time in sorrow and shame, in some wild forest or in the shadow and shelter of some tree".
Simhika was silent.
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