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"I understand," she said, flushing a little

"What is this word?" he said, pointing to the n that stood for

_never_

"It means _never_," she said; "but that's not true!"

He quickly rubbed out what he had written, gave her the chalk,

and stood up She wrote, _t, i, c, n, a, d_

Dolly was completely comforted in the depression caused by her

conversation with Alexey Alexandrovitch when she caught sight of

the two figures: Kitty with the chalk in her hand, with a shy and

happy sure

bending over the table with glowing eyes fastened one minute on

the table and the next on her He was suddenly radiant: he had

understood It lanced at her questioningly, timidly

"Only then?"

"Yes," her smile answered

"And nand now?" he asked

"Well, read this I'll tell you what I should like--should like

so much!" she wrote the initial letters, i, y, c, f, a, f, w, h