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gift like that. Ivan didn’t know how to express his wish, and he stood up,
tugging the tablecloth, and said, turning red, “I don’t know. . . . Maybe. . . .
But I . . . wanted to say. . . . For a long time . . . . Yes, I want a child from you,
beautiful goddess.”
She, Elena, walked up to Ivan, her husband. From her love-filled eyes, a
happy tear rolled down her rosy cheek. She put her hand on Ivan’s shoulder
and scorched him with her hot breath.
“Oh, it was night!Now it is morning!This is day! Oh, how beautiful life is
with a goddess!” thought Ivan, as he put a coat on his second grandson to go
for a walk.
