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Next Day.

Otto has touched father! He touched him for ten roubles.
My father is furious. I cannot tell what it means.

I brought Otto to our home. He spoke with my father, Ivan
Ivanovitch. They sat together in the evening. And now my
father is angry. He says that Otto wanted to touch him.

Why should he be angry?

But Otto is forbidden the house, and I can see him only in
the meadow.

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Two Days Later.

To-day Otto asked me for a keepsake.

I offered him one of my hatpins. But he said no. He has
taken instead the diamond buckle from my belt.

I read his meaning.

He means that I am to him as a diamond is to lesser natures.

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