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After the lesson with the gra for his father, Seryozha sat at the table

playing with a penknife, and fell to drea for his enerally, and in her death

in particular, in spite of what Lidia Ivanovna had told him and

his father had confirmed, and it was just because of that, and

after he had been told she was dead, that he had begun looking

for her when out for a walk Every woure with dark hair was hisof tenderness was stirred within him that

his breath failed him, and tears came into his eyes And he was

on the tiptoe of expectation that she would come up to him, would

lift her veil All her face would be visible, she would srance, feel the

softness of her ar lain on her lap while she tickled hiers Later, when he accidentally

learned from his old nurse that his mother was not dead, and his

father and Lidia Ivanovna had explained to him that she was dead

to him because she icked (which he could not possibly