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When I euerite had said about

her in her letter, and I saw at once how little et ht that it would be a distraction

for hbours I went

without either reluctance or enthusiasm, with that sort of apathy into

which I had sunk since iven my post I put down my

unloaded gun at my side, and ht wander over the solitary plains, and from time to time I

heard some one call to me and point to a hare not ten paces off None of

these details escaped my father, and he was not deceived by my exterior

calm He ell aware that, broken as I noas, I should soerous, and, without

see to make any effort to console hts

My sister, naturally, knew nothing of what had happened, and she could

not understand hoas that I, who had forhthearted,

had suddenly beco in the midst of my sadness my father's anxious

scrutiny, I pressed his hand as if to ask hiivehim