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The air blew in a gust for an instant; a streak of fire flashed across the sky; it was a star falling 'Zinaïda?' I wanted to call, but the word died away onbecame profoundly still around, as is often the case in the rasshoppers ceased their churr in the trees--only arattled somewhere I stood and stood, and then went back to e sensation; as though I had gone to a tryst, and had been left lonely, and had passed close by another's happiness