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Taras Bulba and Other Tales

CHAPTER VI
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Her bosom, neck, and arms were moulded in the proportions which mark fully developed loveliness.
Her hair, which had in former days waved in light ringlets about her face, had become a heavy, luxuriant mass, a part of which was caught up, while part fell in long, slender curls upon her arms and breast.

It seemed as though her every feature had changed.

In vain did he seek to discover in them a single one of those which were engraved in his memory--a single one.

Even her great pallor did not lessen her wonderful beauty; on the contrary, it conferred upon it an irresistible, inexpressible charm.

Andrii felt in his heart a noble timidity, and stood motionless before her.


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