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"Quiet River Don, Loved father mine, Wash thou me! Earth so cool and moist, Loved mother mine, Cover me!"
Afrossinia was singing, sitting at her window in the fortress of St. Elmo. She was busily unpicking the red damask lining of her sand-coloured suit of disguise; nothing on earth, she had declared, would ever induce her to deck herself out in this ridiculous manner again.