She knows that she may pollute caste Hindu so she voids touching anything which belongs to the caste Hindus. She cannot take water from the well of caste Hindus. Her head almost touched the ground, but each puff “succeeded only in raising a spurt of smoke from the wet sticks that served as fuel.” Anand portrays Sohini at work, “She was blowing hard at it (fire), lifting herself on her haunches on the mud floor. She bears the misery, hardship and social tyranny with a smiling face. She cleans the latrines of the caste Hindus. She prepares tea for breakfast and meals for morning and evening. She does her work honestly and never betrays her physical fatigue. She seems to be quite unaware of her extraordinary beauty. She is never proud of her ravishing charm. Sohini is unpretentious, simple and modest. But she unconsciously betrayed her feeling in the mockery and light hearted abuse with which she greeted Sohini.” Hard Work and Modesty Gulabo hated the very sight of her innocent, honest face, though she would not confess, even to herself, that she was jealous of the sweeper-girl. “The delicate features of her rising beauty had inflamed Gulabo’s body.
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