There once lived a lad who was deeply in love with a girl, but disliked by the girl’s father, who didn’t want to see any further development of their love. The lad was eager to write to the girl, yet he was quite sure that the father would read it first. So he wrote such a letter to the girl:

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is growing with each passing day. Next time I see you,

I even won’t like that look yours.

I’ll do nothing but

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marry you. The last chat we had

was so dull and dry that you shouldn’t think it

made me eager to see you again.

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live a hard life, I can never

live happily with you, I’ll devote myself

but not

to you. No one else is more 来源：考试大

harsh and selfish and least

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I sincerely want to let you know

what I said is true. Please do me a favor by

ending our relations and refrain from

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things which displease me. You have no

sincere care for me. So long! Please believe

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I still have a love of you! 来源：考试大

Having read the letter, the father felt relieved and gave it to his daughter with a light heart.

The girl also felt quite pleased after she read it carefully, her lad still had a deep love for her.

Do you know why? In fact, she felt very sad when she read the letter for the first time. But she read it for a few more times and , at last, she found the key – only every other line should be read, that is the first line, the third, the fifth … and so on to the end.