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What was the consequence of the interview? Alas, it is not hard to guess!

Love's frenzied sufferings 4 did not stop agitating the youthful soul avid of sadness; nay, poor Tatiana more intensely with joyless passion burns; 8 sleep shuns her bed; health, life's bloom and its sweetness, smile, virginal tranquillity all, like an empty sound, have ceased to be, 12 and gentle Tanya's youth is darkling: thus a storm's shadow clothes the scarce-born day.

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