ইউরোপ প্রবাস של তাহার ফ্রান্সে অবস্থিতির কারণ সম্বন্ধে মধুস্থান ২৬ অক্টোবর ১৮৬৪ তারিখের একখানি পত্রে গেীরদাসকে যাহা লিখিয়াছিলেন, আমরা নিয়ে তাহা উদ্ধৃত করিতেছি – You are, no doubt, anxious to know why I am here in France. I will tell you, London is not half so pleasant a place to live in as this country and its brutal climate does not agree with Mrs. Dutt's health, though I myself am strong enough for any country under the sun. Besides, here I have greater facilities for mastering French and Itailan than there. To these two languages whlch I already read amâ write with great esse, I am. going (in fact I have already begun ) to add German. So that if you should ever see me again, you will find me a little more learned than I was when we last saw each other. I do not neglect the law altogether, but I have not yet commenced to work away seriously at it. I have neglected some terms, and wiil have to remain in Europe a little longer, but that is not to be regretted at all, I wish I could live here all the days of my life, with means to take occasional runs to India, to see my friends; but I am too poor for that, though you needn't have very large fortune. to do all that. This is unquestionably the best quarter of the globe, I have better dinners for a few Francs than the Raja of Burdwan ever dreams of f I can for a few Francs enjoy pleasures that it would cost him hal, his enormous wealth to command, no' even that would be too little, Such music, such dancing, such beauty This is the WWARê of our ancestral creed. Come here and you will soon forget that you spring from a degraded and anbject race, Here, you are the master of your masters i The man that stands behind my chair, when I dine, would look down upon the best of our princes in India. The girl that pulls of my muddy boots on a wet day, would scorn to touch our richest Rajah in India, Every one, whether high or low, will treat you as a man and not a “d—d nigger." But this is Enrope, my Boy, and not India, You date your letter from "Bagarhat." Is that witHub on
