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He shook his head, jumped up from his low chair, took two turns up and down the roo one drawer after another, began to ru old letters,it; he was not looking for anything--he siet away fro several letters at random (in one of them there was a withered flower tied with a bit of faded ribbon), heat the hearth, he tossed the all this useless rubbish Hurriedly, thrusting his hands first into one, and then into another drawer, he suddenly opened his eyes wide, and slowly bringing out a little octagonal box of old-fashioned make, he slowly raised its lid In the box, under two layers of cotton wool, yelloith age, was a little garnet cross

For a few instants he looked in perplexity at this cross--suddenly he gave a faint cry Soht was expressed in his features Such an expression a man's face wears when he suddenly ht of, whos up before his eyes, still the saoing back to the hearth, he sat down again in the arain hid his face in his hands 'Why to-day? just to-day?' was his thought, and he re since past

This is what he remembered

But first I must mention his name, his father's name and his surname He was called Dimitri Pavlovitch Sanin

Here follohat he remembered