Translated from Russian by Avrahm Yarmolinsky.

My favorite paragraph is, incidentally, the last:

And it seemed as though, in a little while, the solution would be found, and then a new and glorious life would begin; and it was clear to both of them that the end was still far off, and that what was to be most complicated and difficult for them was only just beginning.

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