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RECOLLECTIONS OF CHILDHOOD 151
The pine forest stretched out on both sides of the
road, dark, mysterious, impenetrable. All at once,
as we entered a glade, the moon seemed to swim out
from behind the forest, and flooded us with silvery
light so brilliant and unexpected that we were even
startled.
After my explanation with my sister in Petersburg,
we had not touched upon any pi-ivate questions, and
a sort of constraint still existed between us — some
new sensation had taken possession of us. But at
that moment, as if by mutual agreement, we pressed
close to each other, exchanged an embrace, and felt
that there was no longer any foreign element
interposed between us, and that we were near to each
other, as in the past. A feeling of reckless,
unbounded joy in life overpowered us both.
Heavens ! how that life which lay before us attracted us,
and beckoned us on; and how illimitable, how
mysterious, and how beautiful, it seemed to us that night!
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