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That night, Salka Valka could not sleep for a very long time. And when she examined her heart with the indelicate self-criticism that goes hand in hand with the night, when human deeds no longer appear in the light of day and man's morals no longer cast disturbing shades of color on the most primal of the natural instincts, she had to admit to herself that the displeasure she had expressed to Guja about the dancing sprung from no other source than her own bitterness at being unable to dance, which, therefore, excluded her from any further participation in the funeral celebrations. In reality, she had no more ardent desire that night than to dance and shout.