পাতা:মাইকেল মধুসূদন দত্তের জীবন-চরিত - যোগীন্দ্রনাথ বসু.pdf/৬০৬

@ @ や জীবন-চরিত । forbid' said -"His country and friends cannot spare him'. Fancy this on the banks of the famous Seine Last night the Inn's of court in London closed for the Christmas season; they will remain so closed till the IIth of January next. There are four terms every year, Viz, Hilary, Easter, Trinity and Michælmas. A student must keep 12 of these terms to qualify him to be called to the Bar. The term, just over, would have been my ninth, if I had not been exiled from England by the force of circumstances; and I should have been in India by this time next year. But regrets are vain now. I only hope that you have taken steps to enable me to return to my legal studies next year. I do not wish to tire you by repetitions, and shall pass over all that I wish you to do on my behalf: my last two letters exhaust the subject; do they not ? this moment I am exactly on the position of the "bts (s" of our poets, looking out for the cloud that is to allay my thirst The accounts of the frightful storms which visited you on the 5th of October last have filled me with alarm The calcutta papers, as a matter of course, dwell more particularly on the European side of dismal picture, and pass.over, the native portion with a slight glance of apathey. The English papers follow suit. So that it is difficult to guess what has really taken place I hope all our friends have escaped the terrible visitation. Two days hence, the first Term (Hilary) of this year