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 Triumphant: winning
 Gambled: bet
 Downcast: low, cast down
 Prospective: would be
 Contempt: disrespect, disregard
 Struck: hit, bang
 Flung: aim, launch
 Startled: sudden shock
 Thunderstruck: shocked
 Contemptible: offensive
 Violently: strong or extreme manner
 Dumb: dull
 Heartless: unkind
 Rooted: fixed
 Grief: sorrow
 Steady: firm
 Contemplating: view, observe

Key points

 A girl Sulekha, also called Bholi was the youngest daughter of numberdar Ramlal.
 An Accident made her a backward child (10 months old) and had pox marks on body
(when 2 years old).
 She spoke the first time when she was 5 years old and stammered.
 Parents did not care for her.
 Primary school opened (She was 7 years old).
 People did not want to marry an educated girl.
 But she was sent to the school.
 Meeting with a kind hearted lady teacher.
 The teacher encouraged her to speak.
 She hoped for a new life.
 Years passed- village became a small town.
 Bishambernath a rich grocer was ready to marry Bholi.
 Marriage ceremony with, pomp and show.
 He saw the pox marks on Bholi’s face.
 Demanded for thousands to marry her in the name of dowry.
 Ramlal requested him to marry his daughter and gave him the money with great
difficulty.
 But now Bholi refused to marry him.
 First time she did not stammer and said “I can marry with a man of the age same to
my father, who is even a lame but can’t marry with a greedy man and conceptive
coward just for the sake of your izzat.
 People whispered.
 Bholi answered them smartly.
 Bholi asked him to not to worry about her & said “ I will teach in the school and serve
both of you (parents) in your old age.”