পাতা:মাইকেল মধুসূদন দত্তের জীবন-চরিত - যোগীন্দ্রনাথ বসু.pdf/৫৯২

8 R জীবন-চরিত । the 2Oth or 21st of the following month ! I hope, my dear friend, we shall not perish of starvation before that. You must know that there are four mails that leave Calcutta for Europe every month. Two via Bombay, namely on the 5th and 18th days of the month ; and two by the ordinary route, namely on the 9th and 23rd days of the month. I am sure you will make a good use of this bit of intelligence if it be new to you. Just two years ago I left Calcutta. How little did I think that I should be subjected to so much degradation and suffering. People in Calcutta will, no doubt, tell you lies about us ; do not believe them and have faith in me, I pray you When you conclude the loantransaction with the “Land-mortgage-Society' I hope you will bind down the batmı idar to pay the intcrcst regularly, or to be answerable to me in damages, if I should suffer any loss owing to his default. This is my sccond letter to you. I hope to write to you twice more on thc subjcct this month and then I shall stop with the plcasing hope of being in the hands of a real friend and righteous man. Though I have been very unhappy and full of anxiety here, I have very nearly mastered French. I speak it well and write it better. I have also commenced Italian and mean to add German to my stock of knowledge-if not Spanish and Portuguese, before I leave Europe. The French do not generally love foreign Langua ges, yet our Sanskrit is not a stranger here, and you see half a dozen young fellows, even in this Provincial