(8 জীবন-চরিত। From the month of November next till July 1865, I shall have to live in England and I cannot take my family there, for England is a much dearer country than France and I am more known there than here. I am a stranger among the French, but there are many persons whom I know in England and who would be a source of great expense to me-that is to say, I should have to exchange all sorts of social courtesies with them. I am anxious that you should not misunderstand my object in wishing to leave my family behind me in France. There are many reasons for the step I wish to adopt. House rent is very high in London or its vicinity. Then we shall have to incur the expenses of removing a petty large household all the way to the other side of the Channel and the thing would interfere with the education of my children; and in England, I shall have to lay out a large sum in furnishing a house. The saving of a little money does not strike me as being an advantage sufficiently great to counterbalance the attendant disadvantages. I really do not see how that would enable me to save any money at all. You will see Satyendra a day or two after the receipt of this. Mano Mohan is spending a few days with us and goes back to London next month to resume his studies. I hope he will succeed next year. The probablities are in his favour for he is going to add Italian to his stock of subjects and three years' hard reading ought to give him sufficient strength for the great battle before him.
