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In the first three acts the heroine is supposed to be dying of consumption; in the last act they find she is really dying of cancer." "Are the Russians really such a gloomy people?" "Gloom-loving but not in the least gloomy. They merely take their sadness pleasurably, just as we are accused of taking our pleasures sadly.
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