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ing them with a frantic hand, clutching them tightly in her palm, as if afraid someone would see them again. She also picked up the milky-white silk pajamas and haphazardly threw them on. With such a...urther and further away. It seemed that all the splendor of the city would eventually fade; what about her When would she, too, become a thing of the past! She was content to dwell in silence, hiding...