say to one another, 'Ah, there he goes!' ... People would look at him wonder-struck when he went with slow steady steps to the Ganges to take his bath.
"When he was at Kamarpukur, men and women looked. at him with mouths agape whenever he chanced to come out of the house. One day as he went out for a walk in the direction of the canal known as 'Bhutir Khal', the women who had gone there to fetch water looked at him agape and said, 'There the Master goes!' Annoyed at this, Sri Ramakrishna said to Hriday, 'Well, Hridu, please put a veil on my head at once.'
"I never saw the Master sad. He was joyous in the company of everyone, were he a boy of five or a man of ripe old age. I never saw him morose, my child. Ah, what happy days those were!"
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3. "Ah! How kindly Sri Ramakrishna