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" Bissoondaye had no means of telling the time, but both she and the midwife had assumed that it was midnight, the inauspicious hour Abruptly, as Bissoondaye sat before him with bowed and covered head, the pundit brightened, "Oh, wellThere are always ways and means of getting over these unhappy things He undid his red bundle and took out his astrological almanac, a sheaf of loose thick leaves, long and narrow, between boardsThe leaves were brown with age and their musty smell was mixed with that of the red and ochre sandalwood paste that had been spattered on themThe pundit lifted a leaf, read a little, wet his forefinger on his tongue and lifted another leaf At last he said, "First of all, the features of this tiffany diamond unfortunate boyHe will have good teeth but they will be rather wide, and there will be spaces between themI suppose you know what that meansThe boy will be a lecher and a spendthriftPossibly a liar as wellIt is hard to be sure about those gaps between the teethThey might mean only one of those things or they might mean all three "What about the six fingers, pundit?" "That's a shocking sign, of courseThe only thing I can advise is to keep him away from trees and water "Never bath him?" "I don't mean exactly that He raised his right hand, bunched the fingers and, with his head on one side, said slowly, "One has to interpret what the book says He tapped the wobbly almanac with his left hand"And when the book says water, chloe black I think it means water in its natural form "Natural form," the pundit repeated, but uncertainly"I mean," he said quickly, and with some annoyance, "keep him away from rivers and pondsAnd of course the seaAnd another thing," He added with satisfaction"He will have an unlucky sneeze He began to pack the long leaves of his almanac"Much of the evil this boy will undoubtedly bring will be mitigated if his father is forbidden to see him for twenty-one days "That will be easy," Bissoondaye said, speaking with emotion for the first time "On the twenty-first day the father _must_ see the boy "In a mirror, pundit?" "I would consider that ill-advised "You must fill this brass plate with coconut oil -- which, by the way, chloe bag bay you must make yourself from coconuts you have collected with your own hands -- and in the reflection on this oil the father must see his son's face He tied the almanac together and rolled it in the red cotton wrapper which was also spattered with sandalwood paste"I believe that is all "We forgot one thing, punditji "I can't help you completely thereBut it seems to me that a perfectly safe prefix would be _Mo_It is up to you to think of something to add to that "Oh, punditji, you must help meI can only think of _hun_ The pundit was surprised and genuinely pleased"But that is excellentI couldn't have chosen better myselfFor Mohun, as you know, means the beloved, and was the name given by the milkmaids to Lord prada china Krishna His eyes softened at the thought of the legend and for a moment he appeared to forget Bissoondaye and Mr From the knot at the end of her veil Bissoondaye took out a florin and offered it to the pundit, mumbling her regret that she could not give moreThe pundit said that she had done her best and was not to worryIn fact he was pleased