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goddess Lakshmi is always on my wall."
"said.
"And in my heart," Srinivas added. Mirza Saeed lost his temper. "But goddesses, I swear. Even your own philosophers admit that these are abstract concepts only. Embodiments of shakti which is itself an abstract notion: the dynamic power of the gods."
The toy merchant was looking down at Ayesha as she slept under her quilt of butterflies. "I am no philosopher, Sethji," he said. And did not say that his heart had leapt into his mouth because he had realized that the sleeping girl and the goddess in the calendar on his factory wall had the identical, same-to-same, face.
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When the pilgrimage left town, Srinivas accompanied it, turning a deaf ear to the entreaties of his wild-haired wife who picked up Minoo and shook her
