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[Editorial] suttee -> sati
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acabal committed Apr 24, 2024
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<p>“That was a strange question to be put by his darling Jane.”</p>
<p>“Indeed! I considered it a very natural and necessary one: he had talked of his future wife dying with him. What did he mean by such a pagan idea? <em>I</em> had no intention of dying with him⁠—he might depend on that.”</p>
<p>“Oh, all he longed, all he prayed for, was that I might live with him! Death was not for such as I.”</p>
<p>“Indeed it was: I had as good a right to die when my time came as he had: but I should bide that time, and not be hurried away in a suttee.”</p>
<p>“Indeed it was: I had as good a right to die when my time came as he had: but I should bide that time, and not be hurried away in a sati.”</p>
<p>“Would I forgive him for the selfish idea, and prove my pardon by a reconciling kiss?”</p>
<p>“No: I would rather be excused.”</p>
<p>Here I heard myself apostrophised as a “hard little thing;” and it was added, “any other woman would have been melted to marrow at hearing such stanzas crooned in her praise.”</p>
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