History of Bengali Language and Literature c10.111

c10.111

The maids of Vidyā were taken into her confidence and they all promised secrecy. One night when the starry sky, with its grey linings of clouds looked beautiful, causing sweet emotions to grow in young hearts.—Vidyā felt a great longing to meet the prince. The maids attending on her suddenly saw that a deep cavity had been made inside the room, through which a turban sparkling with diamonds rose before their bewildered gaze, and shortly after there appeared a human form, the handsomest that had ever met their eyes—Sundara was smiling in triumph and looking to Vidyā assured her that it was all through the grace of Kālī that he had at last succeeded in making an underground passage leading to her apartments. The maids felt reassured at this words; but Vidyā