"Thank you"
There she bowed slightly to her father and went out into the garden to rearrange the pebbles in the pond. She collected beautiful pebbles and arranged them under the pond. Under the clear water, the pebbles look sparkling. Sometimes a stone is opaque in the air, but glitters in the water. She moved the stones so skillfully that her shadow in the water remained undisturbed.
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James did not write her once. A month has passed since they broke up, and he still hasn't written to her. She was glad she did not know his address, so that she could not write to him. For in the sleepless hours of the night she was so weak and desperate that she wanted to write to him, and she could have implored him to return, or she would have come to him herself. If she had written the letter and
