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A few minutes later Nadezhda Alexevna got into a tramcar and began her twenty minutes' journey. She felt depressed and uncertain. Spasms of keen pity for her sister and regret for the dead boy caught at her heart.
It was terrible to think that this fifteen-year-old child, but lately a lighthearted schoolboy, should have suddenly shot himself -- painful to imagine the mother's grief. How she would weep -- her life seemed always to have been unhappy and unsuccessful.