Missionary, Visitor, The (1907) . ngaged, Samuel seemed in such all right, and then Chandu, who hadbeen doing all of Motis writing for her,dictated the latter part of it. She said, Yes, for Moti and Moti did not knowit. The postal went off and at the sametime mamma wrote to Long Sahib, tell-ing that Moti was not ready. WhenMotis postal and mammas letter werecompared they did not agree. ThenBadur produced other letters in whichMoti had written about how anxious shewas to get out of the orphanage, andthat she would be glad when she couldget married, and so on. There it letters and post
Missionary, Visitor, The (1907) . ngaged, Samuel seemed in such all right, and then Chandu, who hadbeen doing all of Motis writing for her,dictated the latter part of it. She said, Yes, for Moti and Moti did not knowit. The postal went off and at the sametime mamma wrote to Long Sahib, tell-ing that Moti was not ready. WhenMotis postal and mammas letter werecompared they did not agree. ThenBadur produced other letters in whichMoti had written about how anxious shewas to get out of the orphanage, andthat she would be glad when she couldget married, and so on. There it letters and post card were allpacked up together and sent to mammafor investigation. In short, it came outthat Chandu had been writing these let-ters for Moti and putting things intothem that Moti did not know. After itwas all settled the wedding was put offuntil Christmas. I knew all this and Idid not want any of my letters to bemisunderstood or anything put in thatI did not know. The letters were sentby mail, too, and they got there all Kunka. 23 Orphan Girls. Chundu. a hurry to get married, but as time wenton and he kept putting me off I began toget anxious and wondered what he wasgoing to do; so one day I went to mam-ma and told her I was ready to get mar-ried and I wanted Samuel to get readytoo. He got ready then in a few daysand February 28 was set for our wed-ding. It was arranged that we have aquiet wedding. I was glad, for you knowit was something new for any of ourgirls to marry a man of another nation-ality. Then, too, Samuel is so would have gotten awfully scared ifthe wedding had been in the big meetingroom with everybody present. Poor fel-low, he cried as it was, before the cere-mony was over. The ceremony was inGujerati, and I do not think he under-stood very much of it, because he didnot understand so much of Gujerati ashe does now. For a wedding present Samuel gaveme a pretty green wool sari of nunsveiling. The border is of silk braid withflowers. It is the
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