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Read the passage given below and answer the question that follow by choosing the most appropriate option from the given one:
1. "Your daughter's marriage! I have to find you the money for it, but the moment my service is done, you will forget me." The other made several deprecating noises, as a protestation of his loyalty. Kanda owned about twenty acres of land, a house and a cattle, but all of it was tied up in mortgages-most through Margayya's advice and assistance. He was a gambler and drank heavily, and he always asked for money on the pretext of having to marry his daughters, of whom he had a good number.
2. In order to look for a partner for Kanda for a joint-loan, Margayya started convincing the villagers and prepared to deliver a speech, "He must have a joint-loan because he needs at least five hundred rupees immediately to see him through his daughter's marriage. You know how it is with the dowry system!" Everybody made a sympathetic noise and shook their heads. "Very bad, very bad. Why should we criticize what our ancestors have brought into existence?" someone said. "Why not?" another protested. "Some people are ruined by the dowry."
3. "Why do you say some people?" Margayya asked. "Why am I here? Three daughters were born to my father. Five cart-loads of paddy came to us every half year, from the fields. We just heaped them up on the floor of the hall, we had five halls to our house; but where has it all gone? To three daugthers. By the time my father found husbands for them there was nothing left for us to eat at home!"
4. "But is it not said that a man who begets a son is blessed in three lives, because he gives away the greatest treasure on earth ?" said someone. "And how much more blessed is he that gives away three daughters ? He is blessed no doubt, but he also becomes a bankrupt," Margayya said.
Read the passage given below and answer the question that follow by choosing the most appropriate option from the given one:
1. "Your daughter's marriage! I have to find you the money for it, but the moment my service is done, you will forget me." The other made several deprecating noises, as a protestation of his loyalty. Kanda owned about twenty acres of land, a house and a cattle, but all of it was tied up in mortgages-most through Margayya's advice and assistance. He was a gambler and drank heavily, and he always asked for money on the pretext of having to marry his daughters, of whom he had a good number.
2. In order to look for a partner for Kanda for a joint-loan, Margayya started convincing the villagers and prepared to deliver a speech, "He must have a joint-loan because he needs at least five hundred rupees immediately to see him through his daughter's marriage. You know how it is with the dowry system!" Everybody made a sympathetic noise and shook their heads. "Very bad, very bad. Why should we criticize what our ancestors have brought into existence?" someone said. "Why not?" another protested. "Some people are ruined by the dowry."
3. "Why do you say some people?" Margayya asked. "Why am I here? Three daughters were born to my father. Five cart-loads of paddy came to us every half year, from the fields. We just heaped them up on the floor of the hall, we had five halls to our house; but where has it all gone? To three daugthers. By the time my father found husbands for them there was nothing left for us to eat at home!"
4. "But is it not said that a man who begets a son is blessed in three lives, because he gives away the greatest treasure on earth ?" said someone. "And how much more blessed is he that gives away three daughters ? He is blessed no doubt, but he also becomes a bankrupt," Margayya said.
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