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Rh took friendly leave of each other and never met again, although for half a year I searched for that kind Natasha, with whom I spent the autumn night just described by me, in every hole and corner

If she be already dead—and well for her if it were so!—may she rest in peace! And if she be alive still I say: peace to her soul! And may the consciousness of her fall never enter her soul for that would be a superfluous and fruitless suffering if life is to be lived