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प्रश्न
Write what you think about the following thoughts and actions of Mathilde :
Mathilde wrote a note to her friend as dictated by her husband.
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उत्तर
Even after a long search, they could not discover the lost necklace. They expected to locate it sometime. They required more time, so Mathilde was forced to write the fake letter to her friend. Her actions of hiding and hurting her friend were immoral and irrational.
संबंधित प्रश्न
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They whisper like drizzle
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with a lost gaze as though
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never returned to earth.
They shiver like December nights
in their dreamless sleep
on shop verandahs.
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