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    The Post Office
    The Post Office
    The Post Office
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    The Post Office

    By Devabrata Mukherjee and Rabindranath Tagore

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateJan 1, 1971
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      The Post Office - Devabrata Mukherjee

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      Title: The Post Office

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      The Post Office

      By Rabindranath Tagore

      [Translated from Bengali to English by Devabrata Mukherjee]

      [New York: The Macmillan Company, 1914

      Copyright 1914, by Mitchell Kennerley;

      Copyright, 1914 by The Macmillan Company]

      DRAMATIS PERSONÆ

      MADHAV

      AMAL, his adopted child

      SUDHA, a little flower girl

      THE DOCTOR

      DAIRYMAN

      WATCHMAN

      GAFFER

      VILLAGE HEADMAN, a bully

      KING'S HERALD

      ROYAL PHYSICIAN

      THE POST OFFICE

      ACT I

      [MADHAV'S House]

      MADHAV. What a state I am in! Before he came, nothing mattered; I felt so free. But now that he has come, goodness knows from where, my heart is filled with his dear self, and my home will be no home to me when he leaves. Doctor, do you think he—

      PHYSICIAN. If there's life in his fate, then he will live long.

      But what the medical scriptures say, it seems—

      MADHAV. Great heavens, what?

      PHYSICIAN. The scriptures have it: Bile or palsey, cold or gout spring all alike.

      MADHAV. Oh, get along, don't fling your scriptures at me; you only make me more anxious; tell me what I can do.

      PHYSICIAN. [Taking snuff] The patient needs the most scrupulous care.

      MADHAV. That's true; but tell me how.

      PHYSICIAN. I have already mentioned, on no account must he be let out of doors.

      MADHAV Poor child, it is very hard to keep him indoors all day long.

      PHYSICIAN. What else can you do? The autumn sun and the damp are both very bad for the little fellow—for the scriptures have it: /* In wheezing, swoon or in nervous fret, In jaundice or leaden eyes— */

      MADHAV. Never mind the scriptures,

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