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হিন্দু কলেজ-শিক্ষাবস্থা । (GQ) A fig for your scholastic fame, Your Scholarships and Prizes :- except one-a nighty one-that is it will deprive me of the pleasure of your company, of which I am passionately fond-as I am of you This sounds like flattery, but it is not so. It is truth. There is not in this wide world a soul I prize so much as thine : you have in you all that is noble, generous, disinterested, tender, and what not ? God bless you, my lad Never did I dream of finding a heart so true, so susceptible of true friendship as yours, in this "deceitful world of ours' As long as I live, -in whatever climate may my Fates lead me, thou shalt be remembered, and that with the tenderest feelings of friendship p When I go to England, which period, I hope, is not very far-( next cold season )-I intend taking a picture of yours, - let it cost me whatever it will I will sell my very clothes for it--a miniature piture of course. This is what I have been thinking of to-day : I must do it. If circumstances allow, I intend taking one, even, before my departure for England. If you are acquainted with any artist, -native-English-let me know of it. I am resolved to possess a picture of thy sweet self. I am afraid l have written enough on this subject. Don't think it flattery-don't -don't - don't. Will you come to see thy poet here on Sunday next P If you do, bring Moti with you : and let me know that I may be prepared, ( poor as I am ), to receive so beautiful a guest as yourself. But this is idle, -I know you won't-you have everything but inclination to honor my "humble