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The incident of the stealing was soon forgotten, but the father began to love<br />
Mohan and trust him more and more. This was only natural, for had not Mohan<br />
shown how good and truthful he was?"<br />
"I promise, mother, I, too, will always tell the truth, and then I am sure father<br />
will love me more and more."<br />
"Yes, my son. Not your father alone, but everyone who loves and honours the<br />
truthful."<br />
"But let us proceed with the story, mother. What happened to Mohan after<br />
that?"<br />
"His father's health now began to decline. Everyone in the house did what he<br />
could for him. But Mohandas took special pains to nurse him and look after him.<br />
He would rush home from school as soon as possible, and then attend on his<br />
father. He would give him his medicines, change his clothes, and massage his<br />
aching legs and feet for hours. One night, he had just left his father and gone<br />
to his room for something, when a servant knocked at his door and told him<br />
that his father had passed away. Mohandas could never forgive himself for not<br />
having been near his father during his last moments and this thought hurt him<br />
and pained him throughout his life. He was about seventeen when he lost his<br />
father.<br />
"Alas ! Poor boy ! How bitterly he must have cried at his father's death!"<br />
"Yes, my son. But today he himself is dead and the whole of India, nay, the<br />
whole world, weeps for him and mourns his death!"<br />
16. Poisonous plant.<br />
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