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"One thing I would say," began Anna. "I am his sister, I know his

character, that faculty of forgetting everything, everything"

(she waved her hand before her forehead), "that faculty for being

completely carried away, but for completely repenting too. He

cannot believe it, he cannot comprehend now how he can have acted

as he did."

"No; he understands, he understood!" Dolly broke in. "But I ...

you are forgetting me ... does it make it easier for me?"