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CHILDHOOD
"'Ah, Natálya Sávishna, if you only knew whom I saw just now!'
"No matter how much I asked her, she would not answer me. She only ordered me to put the small table near her, then wrote something more in the letter, told me to seal it in her presence, and to send it away at once. After that everything went worse and worse."
