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"But if it is repeated?"

"It cannot be, as I understand it...."

"Yes, but could you forgive it?"

"I don't know, I can't judge.... Yes, I can," said Anna, thinking

a moment; and grasping the position in her thought and weighing

it in her inner balance, she added: "Yes, I can, I can, I can.

Yes, I could forgive it. I could not be the same, no; but I could

forgive it, and forgive it as though it had never been, never

been at all...."

"Oh, of course," Dolly interposed quickly, as though saying what

she had more than once thought, "else it would not be

forgiveness. If one forgives, it must be completely, completely.

Come, let us go; I'll take you to your room," she said, getting

up, and on the way she embraced Anna. "My dear, how glad I am you

came. It has made things better, ever so much better."

Chapter 20