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He uttered a sob, and then immediately continued, with haste: "Then only, when I saw her dead face, did I understand all that I had done.

I understood that it was I, I, who had killed her.

I understood that I was the cause of the fact that she, who had been a moving, living, palpitating being, had now become motionless and cold, and that there was no way of repairing this thing.

He who has not lived through that cannot understand it." ***** We remained silent a long time.

Posdnicheff sobbed and trembled before me.