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Nellie
the daughter of a landowner and general, a young and pretty girl,
dreaming day and night
of being married,
was sitting in her room gazing with exhausted, half-closed eyes into
the looking-glass. She was pale, tense and as motionless as
the looking-glass.
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the significance of life, happiness, career, fate.
It was he, the destined one,
The destined one was for Nellie everything,
the object of long dreams and hopes.
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looking blankly at her husband’s face. And all the previous life seemed
“Why is it, what is it for?� she asked, to her a stupid prelude to this.
Something fell from
Nellie’s
hand and knocked on the floor. She started jumped up and
opened her eyes wide. one
looking-glass
she saw lying at her feet.
the other
was standing as before on the table.
“I must have fallen asleep.� she thought with a sigh of relief.
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