পাতা:মাইকেল মধুসূদন দত্তের জীবন-চরিত - যোগীন্দ্রনাথ বসু.pdf/২১৮

জীবন-চরিত । אשל have, in a great measure, saved me from something like a grave. How can I thank you sufficiently. The books are all safe and sound. You will be glad to hear that my wife has just given me a little daughter. So I am a father. Your anxiety to ascertain this portion of my affairs, is what one would take in favour of one's heart's best brother. I shall enter into particulars regarding them at some other time. I am badly off and have heardly anything to jingle in my pocket. Beg I must not Myr wants, at present, are of such a nature as philosophy cannot iustify. I have a great deal to say about Mr. Bethune's. You must look upon me as a most unthinking father, if you are under the impression that I do not think ardently and uninterruptedly on such a subject. Perhaps you do not know that I devote several hours daily to Tamil. My life is more busy than that of a school boy. Here is my routine ; 6 to 8 Hebrew, 8 to I2 school, I2-2 Greek, 2-5 Telegu, and Sanskrit, 5-7 Latin, 7-II o English. Am I mot preparing for the great object of embellishing the tongue of my fathers ? For the present you must excuse my brevity. Yours most truly and affly M. S. DUTT, P. S. As soon as you get this letter write off to father to say that I have got a daughter. I do, not