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"No, it's only the second, really! But what if it were the

fourth, what if it were the fifteenth, that's all nonsense! And

if ever I regretted the death of my father and mother, it is now,

and I sometimes think if my parents were living what a protest I

would have aimed at them! I would have done something on

purpose... I would have shown them! I would have astonished them!

I am really sorry there is no one!"

"To surprise! He-he! Well, be that as you will," Pyotr Petrovitch

interrupted, "but tell me this; do you know the dead man's

daughter, the delicate-looking little thing? It's true what they

say about her, isn't it?"