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Can she have solved the riddle? Can "the word" have been found? The hours run; she has forgotten 4 that she is long due homewhere two neighbors have got together, and where the talk is about her. "What should one do? Tatiana is no infant," 8 quoth the old lady with a groan. "Why, Olinka is younger… It is time, yea, yea, the maiden were established $ but then-what can I do with her? 12 She turns down everybody with the same curt Til not marry,' and keeps brooding, and wanders in the woods alone."

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