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The wedding had been managed in simple, and yet far from common fashion.
Two days after the conversation which resulted in their engagement, Viérotchka was delighted at her approaching freedom. On the third day the "cellar," as she called it, seemed twice as intolerable as before; on the fourth day she wept, which was contrary to her liking, but she did not weep much; on the fifth day she wept more; on the sixth day she did not weep at all, but she could not sleep from sorrow.