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"No, why not? I'll tell you si for a reply, she went on: "Yes, it brings up memories,

once painful ones I cared for so"

Kitty with big, wide-open eyes gazed silently, sympathetically at

Varenka

"I cared for him, and he cared for irl He's living now not far

from us, and I see him sometimes You didn't think I had a

love story too," she said, and there was a faint gleam in her

handsolowed

all over her

"I didn't think so? Why, if I were ayou Only I can't understand how he

could, to please his et you and ood man, and I'm not unhappy; quite the

contrary, I' any ood you are! how good you are!" cried Kitty, and stopping

her, she kissed her "If I could only be even a little like

you!"

"Why should you be like anyone? You're nice as you are," said