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Chapter Four
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For a few seconds they were silent5 Onegin then went up to her and quoth: "You wrote to me. 4 Do not deny it. I have read a trustful soul's avowals, an innocent love's outpourings5 your candidness appeals to me, 8 in me it has excited emotions long grown silent. But I don't want to praise you- I will repay you for it 12 with an avowal likewise void of art; hear my confession5 unto your judgment I submit.