estates, and she has borne him three children... And no doubt the memory of the days of her youth and of the sliding... and of the phrase it used to carry to her, stirring her feelings, is among the dearest of her memories —

indeed the happiest of them and the deepest in its trace upon her soul, memories that will never be effaced from her mind so long as she remains alive.

And now, having entered upon old age, you find me asking myself:

Why did I utter those words?.. And what was it that moved me to repeat that joke?..

* This story was published in (Selections from Russian Stories), translated by Mr. Najati Sidqi and published by Dar Beirut.

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