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Then, because you're English, you want to see what the Russians are really like.
You're curious and sympathetic, inquisitive and, perhaps, a little sentimental about it....
Am I right ?" "No, not quite--there are other things.
I'd like to tell you.
Do you mind," he said suddenly looking up straight into my face with a confiding smile that was especially his own, "if I talk, if I tell you why I've come? I've no right, I don't know you--but I'm so happy to-night that I _must_ talk--I'm so happy that I feel as though I shall never get through the night alive." Of our conversation after this, or rather of _his_ talk, excited, eager, intimate and shy, old and wise and very, very young, I remember now, I think, every word with especial vividness.
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